Re: ACPI hangs on boot with ACER Travelmate 3002WTCi

[Thomas Renninger <trenn-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>]

Bao Tran wrote:
> First off, just wanted to say thanks for everything so far.
> 
> Secondly, I just got an Acer Travelmate 3002wtci, and the first thing
> I did was rip out the hard drive and tried to put linux on it.  I've
> had it for a couple of days now, and I've gotten most of it working,
> but I noticed that if ACPI support is enabled on any of my kernels
> (currently running mm-sources 2.6.13-rc5-mm1), the computer will hang
> right after I press enter in grub, showing up no messages and giving
> me a blank black screen.
> 
> I am thinking like most Acer laptops, it has a buggy DSDT and ECDT
> problems, so I've considered fixing it, but I can't even run a cat
> /proc/acpi since acpi has to be disabled in order to boot, so I am
> stuck.
> 
> I would post technical specs, but I am currently at work. I will post
> more when I get home,but for now, here is what i remember off the top
> of my head:
> 
> ACPI "compliant" 1.0b
> PhoenixBIOS
> Winbond (Nat Semi) PC87591 sensor
> Pentium M 740 (1.73 GHz)
> ICH6 Controller (i2c-i801 + eeprom loaded)
> 
> 
> Is there anything I can do to diagnose/fix the problem more?
> 
Have you tried:
noapic
pci=noacpi
options?
If it comes up you can have a look at your DSDT.

early_printk=vga
could give you a hint where it hangs.

     Thomas


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