ACPI issue

ACPI issue

[Robert Gomulka]

Hello,
I have just bought Compaq 572US laptop with AMD X64 dual core on board. I 
installed Debian Etch on it. After first reboot I experienced many problems 
with system freeze at many random moments. I had no idea what to do, as a 
blind shot I disabled acpi in boot parameters (acpi=off). Those problems 
disappeared and my system works for an hour fine (previously it was a 
question of minutes).
I have read article about ACPI myths and found this e-mail address there. What 
steps would you suggest next in order to improve my system situation with 
ACPI?

Regards,
Robert

Re: ACPI issue

[Len Brown]

On Wednesday 15 August 2007 18:12, Robert Gomulka wrote:
> Hello,
> I have just bought Compaq 572US laptop with AMD X64 dual core on board. I 
> installed Debian Etch on it. After first reboot I experienced many problems 
> with system freeze at many random moments. I had no idea what to do, as a 
> blind shot I disabled acpi in boot parameters (acpi=off). Those problems 
> disappeared and my system works for an hour fine (previously it was a 
> question of minutes).
> I have read article about ACPI myths and found this e-mail address there. What 
> steps would you suggest next in order to improve my system situation with 
> ACPI?

Start by upgrading to a 2.6.22.stable kernel.

If you still have problems with ACPI mode, then open a bug report here:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=ACPI

and attach the output from dmesg -s64000 from the default and acpi=off boots.
check that the driver to IRQ mapping in /proc/interrupts is the same
in both cases.

Look if there is a temperature reported under /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature
and see if perhaps your system is getting hot when it fails.  Make a note
if you can hear the fans turn on/off, and at what temperature.

provide the output from acpidump in the bug report.

thanks,
-Len