From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Meyer Subject: Re: Where do I send APIC victims? Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:19:51 -0400 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <200309030919.51807.greg@gkmweb.com> References: <20030903080852.GA27649@k3.hellgate.ch> <200309031123.58713.adq_dvb@lidskialf.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200309031123.58713.adq_dvb-fmPXVN3awWJAJAzL26g0SA@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 03 September 2003 06:23 am, Andrew de Quincey wrote: > On Wednesday 03 Sep 2003 9:08 am, Roger Luethi wrote: > > As the maintainer of via-rhine, I get bug reports that almost in their > > entirety are "fixed" by turning off APIC and/or ACPI. This has been going > > on for several months now. Every now and then, something promising gets > > posted on LKML, but so far if anything I've seen an _increase_ in those bug > > reports. Maybe a fix is floating around and this will be a non-issue RSN. I > > simply can't tell, since I don't have any IO-APIC hardware to play with. > > > > Instead of just telling everybody to turn off APIC, I'd like to point bug > > reporters to the proper place and tell them what information they should > > provide so it can get fixed for real. According to MAINTAINERS, Ingo Molnar > > does Intel APIC, but the problems are with VIA chip sets. So where do I > > send my users? Any takers? > > Hi, I'm trying to develop patches for ACPI IRQ issues. > > Are these VIA KT333/KT400 chipsets? If so, there's a known bug in many BIOSes > with these chipsets. I'm waiting on some docs from VIA to fix this issue. > I was just about to post that I have a Soyo KT-400 Dragon Ultra (black) with a integrated VIA Rhine II that has this problem. I would really love to help solve this problem if I can. I can provide any info you need as well as do some testing. I have been using Mandrake, so I have been experiencing this because they have acpi turned on by default since a year (9.0). -- Greg ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf