From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Uwe Maier Subject: Re: acpi-20021101 broken Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:27:59 +0100 (MET) Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <27570.1036506479@www30.gmx.net> References: <20021105083759.870.qmail@web12408.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: acpi-devel-pyega4qmqnRoyOMFzWx49A@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Hy, I can see that behaviour also on my Toshiba 2800-400. Booting is very slow. After boring minutes I can start a 'top' where I can see the kacpidpc spawning quite fast (and eating up nearly all of my CPU cycles until it dies). uwe > Hi > Same situation happend on my ThinkPad 600E. After > waitting for a long time, The seeming endless loop was > over, and the box boot into console login. But the > strange problem was that every character you key in > were changed (eg. a change to ^A, ) so I cannot login. > After waitting for a long time, every thing looks > like right. keyboard was ok now. > > I was confused by the odd login experience. > > > --- "Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima" > wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 moali-ArvQUR6U0fYD0fefG/KofA@public.gmane.org wrote: > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > I just tried out acpi-20021101 (patch against > > 2.4.20-rc1), but unfortunately it > > > seems to be broken. When booting, I see some kenel > > messages (I think I could > > > identify the processor-determination) and then the > > kernel seems to run into an > > > endless loop writing tons of messages to the > > console (nearly impossible to > > > read); but they all seem to have the same > > structure: > > > > > > a few words "-" four digits "["for digits"]" > > "["two digits"]" some text ":" > > > some text > > > > I think you want the patch at: > > > > > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=2390873 > > > > > > Yours Tony > > > > Jan 22-25 2003 Linux.Conf.AU > > http://linux.conf.au/ > > The Australian Linux Technical Conference! -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging & more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en