ACPI problems on Athlon MP system

ACPI problems on Athlon MP system

[Martin Siegert]

Hi,

I am not sure whether this is the correct place to ask this question,
but hopefully you can point me in the right direction.

Here is the problem:
I am trying to get the "poweroff" command working on an Athlon MP
(Tyan S2462) system (linux-2.4.21-pre2; otherwise RedHat 7.3).

The machine has ACPI enabled in the bios. When I compile the kernel
with ACPI disabled, the poweroff command shuts down the system, but
does not shut off the power (it acts exactly like the halt command).
In order to shutoff the machine I must press the power switch.

When I compile the kernel with ACPI enabled the situation is worse:
the halt and poweroff commands still work in exactly the same way
(shutdown the system), but now I cannot switch off the machine
anymore: pressing the power switch has absolutely no effect
(regardless of how long I hold the switch). The only way to
switch off the machine is to either pull the power cord or to
press the reset button on then the power switch (which will then
switch off the machine when it reboots).

What am I doing wrong? Am I missing some kernel switches, options?
Do I need additional software?

Any help or suggestions, hints are appreciated!

Thanks in advance,

Martin

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Re: ACPI problems on Athlon MP system

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> I am not sure whether this is the correct place to ask this question,
> but hopefully you can point me in the right direction.
> 
> Here is the problem:
> I am trying to get the "poweroff" command working on an Athlon MP
> (Tyan S2462) system (linux-2.4.21-pre2; otherwise RedHat 7.3).
> 
> The machine has ACPI enabled in the bios. When I compile the kernel
> with ACPI disabled, the poweroff command shuts down the system, but
> does not shut off the power (it acts exactly like the halt command).
> In order to shutoff the machine I must press the power switch.
> 
> When I compile the kernel with ACPI enabled the situation is worse:
> the halt and poweroff commands still work in exactly the same way
> (shutdown the system), but now I cannot switch off the machine
> anymore: pressing the power switch has absolutely no effect
> (regardless of how long I hold the switch). The only way to
> switch off the machine is to either pull the power cord or to
> press the reset button on then the power switch (which will then
> switch off the machine when it reboots).

Try holding power switch for 5 seconds, that should switch it off.

> What am I doing wrong? Am I missing some kernel switches, options?
> Do I need additional software?

try echo 5 > /proc/acpi/sleep. If it powers down, what you see is
userland bug.

								Pavel

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Re: ACPI problems on Athlon MP system

[Arndt Schoenewald]

Hi Martin,

the ACPI support in the 2.4 kernel series is very old (from autumn
2001 if I remember correctly), so you should use the ACPI patch from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi; in your case

    http://prdownloads.sf.net/acpi/acpi-20021212-2.4.20.diff.gz

(This patch applies cleanly against linux-2.4.21-pre2 from kernel.org
even though it was done for 2.4.20.)

The Intel people are trying to get an updated ACPI version into 2.4,
but I guess this will not happen before 2.4.22. The 2.5 kernel series
does already include a current ACPI version.

Good luck,
Arndt


On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 07:07:41PM -0800, Martin Siegert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am not sure whether this is the correct place to ask this question,
> but hopefully you can point me in the right direction.
> 
> Here is the problem:
> I am trying to get the "poweroff" command working on an Athlon MP
> (Tyan S2462) system (linux-2.4.21-pre2; otherwise RedHat 7.3).
> 
> The machine has ACPI enabled in the bios. When I compile the kernel
> with ACPI disabled, the poweroff command shuts down the system, but
> does not shut off the power (it acts exactly like the halt command).
> In order to shutoff the machine I must press the power switch.
> 
> When I compile the kernel with ACPI enabled the situation is worse:
> the halt and poweroff commands still work in exactly the same way
> (shutdown the system), but now I cannot switch off the machine
> anymore: pressing the power switch has absolutely no effect
> (regardless of how long I hold the switch). The only way to
> switch off the machine is to either pull the power cord or to
> press the reset button on then the power switch (which will then
> switch off the machine when it reboots).
> 
> What am I doing wrong? Am I missing some kernel switches, options?
> Do I need additional software?
> 
> Any help or suggestions, hints are appreciated!
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Martin

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DSDT for Compaq Presario 1720US

[Prabhakar Reddy Gudla Venkata Siva]

Hi list,

I am trying to resume my efforts to get ACPI support for my Compaq
Presario 1720US. I was able to use ACPI patch from Dec' 01 and the
two subsequent patches released after Dec '01 (yes it is Dec '01). But
since April '02 patches I was never able to even get ACPI support due to
either of the following:

1) Boot-up problems
2) DSDT problems (related to 1)
3) IRQ problems (on corrected DSDT)

Well, I stopped pursuing the ACPI support since Aug '02. Thought someone
else would get it working on same make as mine and would follow his/her
footsteps.

So, I was wondering if anyone on the list has ever had success with recent
ACPI patches on Compaq Presario 1720US (or it's close brethren) ?  By
success I mean, clean compile, battery status, etc.

I have seen people expressing sucess with Compaq Evo, Presario 27xx series
but unfortuantely the specs, hence the DSDT are different. I am willing to
post my DSDT, again, if that helps.

regards

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Research Assistant

Model Analysis Lab
Biological Resources Engineering 
University of Maryland 
College Park, MD, 20742.

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Re: ACPI problems on Athlon MP system

[Ducrot Bruno]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 07:07:41PM -0800, Martin Siegert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am not sure whether this is the correct place to ask this question,
> but hopefully you can point me in the right direction.
> 

...

> The machine has ACPI enabled in the bios. When I compile the kernel
> with ACPI disabled, the poweroff command shuts down the system, but
> does not shut off the power (it acts exactly like the halt command).
> In order to shutoff the machine I must press the power switch.
> 
> When I compile the kernel with ACPI enabled the situation is worse:
> the halt and poweroff commands still work in exactly the same way
> (shutdown the system), but now I cannot switch off the machine
> anymore: pressing the power switch has absolutely no effect
> (regardless of how long I hold the switch). The only way to

ACPI spec require that holding the power switch for 4 second will
switch off the system in *any* case as an emergency power down.
Those if really you can not power down your machine this way,
this is more likely an hardware trouble.

BTW, have you tried the latest ACPI patch on sf.net?

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Re: ACPI problems on Athlon MP system

[Martin Siegert]

Hi again,

I patched/compiled linux-2.4.21-pre2 with the acpi-20021212-2.4.20
patch. Now the machine does not even boot anymore. Here is the last
part of the boot messages


AMD7411: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings:hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings:hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive
hda: IRQ probe failed (0xffffcf8)
hdb: IRQ probe failed (0xffffcf8)
hdb: IRQ probe failed (0xffffcf8)
blk: queue c02fb5c0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xffffcf8)
hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xffffcf8)
hdc: CDU5211, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xffffcf8)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt
hda: host protected area >= 1
hda: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=5005/255/63, UDMA(100)
Partition check:
 hda:<3>hda: lost interrupt
hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24


and at this point the machine hangs forever. I then rebooted the machine
with the "noapic" kernel flag and this time it boots but I get a lot of
"APIC error on CPU1: 40(40)" messages. A recent snapshot from syslog is:

Jan 14 19:22:40 test2 kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 40(40)
Jan 14 19:23:11 test2 last message repeated 3912 times
Jan 14 19:24:12 test2 last message repeated 6393 times
Jan 14 19:25:13 test2 last message repeated 6106 times
Jan 14 19:26:14 test2 last message repeated 6116 times
Jan 14 19:26:57 test2 last message repeated 6243 times

However, the "poweroff" command now works!

Is there a conflict between ACPI and APIC or is there a way of getting
the best of both worlds? I.e., can I use the acpi-20021212-2.4.20
without having to set the "noapic" flag? (it is entirely possible
that I misconfigured the kernel in some way)

Cheers,
Martin

On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 11:37:07AM +0100, Arndt Schoenewald wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> the ACPI support in the 2.4 kernel series is very old (from autumn
> 2001 if I remember correctly), so you should use the ACPI patch from
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi; in your case
> 
>     http://prdownloads.sf.net/acpi/acpi-20021212-2.4.20.diff.gz
> 
> (This patch applies cleanly against linux-2.4.21-pre2 from kernel.org
> even though it was done for 2.4.20.)
> 
> The Intel people are trying to get an updated ACPI version into 2.4,
> but I guess this will not happen before 2.4.22. The 2.5 kernel series
> does already include a current ACPI version.
> 
> Good luck,
> Arndt
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 07:07:41PM -0800, Martin Siegert wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am not sure whether this is the correct place to ask this question,
> > but hopefully you can point me in the right direction.
> > 
> > Here is the problem:
> > I am trying to get the "poweroff" command working on an Athlon MP
> > (Tyan S2462) system (linux-2.4.21-pre2; otherwise RedHat 7.3).
> > 
> > The machine has ACPI enabled in the bios. When I compile the kernel
> > with ACPI disabled, the poweroff command shuts down the system, but
> > does not shut off the power (it acts exactly like the halt command).
> > In order to shutoff the machine I must press the power switch.
> > 
> > When I compile the kernel with ACPI enabled the situation is worse:
> > the halt and poweroff commands still work in exactly the same way
> > (shutdown the system), but now I cannot switch off the machine
> > anymore: pressing the power switch has absolutely no effect
> > (regardless of how long I hold the switch). The only way to
> > switch off the machine is to either pull the power cord or to
> > press the reset button on then the power switch (which will then
> > switch off the machine when it reboots).
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong? Am I missing some kernel switches, options?
> > Do I need additional software?
> > 
> > Any help or suggestions, hints are appreciated!
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > 
> > Martin
> 
> -- 
> Arndt Schoenewald <abs-SA7OhAOe25xnNxvc45mVi0K323yFvGpRdefyYXQ/eNw@public.gmane.org>, Software Developer
> Quelltext AG (http://www.quelltext-ag.de), Dortmund, Germany


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Re: ACPI problems on Athlon MP system

[Arndt Schoenewald]

Hi Martin,

it seems that the ACPI support for APICs and/or IO-APICs is currently
not fully functional (at least in 2.4; don't know about 2.5). Many
people on this list, including me, need to disable APIC support in the
kernel or in the BIOS, if the BIOS setup has such an option, to get
their systems to boot.

And then, the IDE subsystem of 2.4.21 has changed a lot from 2.4.20,
and it could well be the case that 2.4.21-pre2 has still bugs that
raise their head on your system.

(On my MS-6533EG P4 SiS650 mainboard, the 2.4.21-pre2 IDE works much
better than the 2.4.18-2.4.20 kernels -- now I can finally burn DVDs
on my Pioneer DVR-105 with DMA enabled --  but your mileage may vary.
After all, 2.4.21-pre2 is still, well, "pre".)

Good luck,
Arndt


On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 07:36:43PM -0800, Martin Siegert wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> I patched/compiled linux-2.4.21-pre2 with the acpi-20021212-2.4.20
> patch. Now the machine does not even boot anymore. Here is the last
> part of the boot messages
> 
> 
> AMD7411: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings:hda:DMA, hdb:pio
>     ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings:hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> hda: IC35L040AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive
> hda: IRQ probe failed (0xffffcf8)
> hdb: IRQ probe failed (0xffffcf8)
> hdb: IRQ probe failed (0xffffcf8)
> blk: queue c02fb5c0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
> hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xffffcf8)
> hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xffffcf8)
> hdc: CDU5211, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xffffcf8)
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: lost interrupt
> hda: lost interrupt
> hda: lost interrupt
> hda: host protected area >= 1
> hda: 80418240 sectors (41174 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=5005/255/63, UDMA(100)
> Partition check:
>  hda:<3>hda: lost interrupt
> hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x24
> 
> 
> and at this point the machine hangs forever. I then rebooted the machine
> with the "noapic" kernel flag and this time it boots but I get a lot of
> "APIC error on CPU1: 40(40)" messages. A recent snapshot from syslog is:
> 
> Jan 14 19:22:40 test2 kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 40(40)
> Jan 14 19:23:11 test2 last message repeated 3912 times
> Jan 14 19:24:12 test2 last message repeated 6393 times
> Jan 14 19:25:13 test2 last message repeated 6106 times
> Jan 14 19:26:14 test2 last message repeated 6116 times
> Jan 14 19:26:57 test2 last message repeated 6243 times
> 
> However, the "poweroff" command now works!
> 
> Is there a conflict between ACPI and APIC or is there a way of getting
> the best of both worlds? I.e., can I use the acpi-20021212-2.4.20
> without having to set the "noapic" flag? (it is entirely possible
> that I misconfigured the kernel in some way)
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin

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