From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joschka Sulzer Subject: Re: ACPI-Problems with debian-etch & Kernel 2.6.16 Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:39:52 +0200 Message-ID: <442974E8.5000403@aol.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from imo-d20.mx.aol.com ([205.188.139.136]:18929 "EHLO imo-d20.mx.aol.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751203AbWC1Rks (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:40:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk schrieb: >> These messages appear every 10 seconds! >> > > Do you have thermal polling turned on? > > more /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/polling_frequency > > Not that you should turn the polling off, but maybe every time a > thermal poll is run, the embedded controller (ec) does an UPDT, which > also means it looks at the battery state. And maybe the UPDT causes > the namespace AE_NOT_FOUND. Perhaps it didn't cause a problem before > because the default used to be ec_intr=0, and the ec worked fine with > that setting. > > You could try booting with ec_intr=0 to see if it suppresses the > problem. > > I've spent a while (see bugzilla #5989) debugging the consequences of > changing the default from ec_intr=0 to ec_intr=1 (which happened in > 2.6.16-rc* sometime -- see the #5989 bugzilla entries for the exact > git commit id). Probably it's a good change in general -- I leave > that to the experts -- but it has certainly exposed a few troubles in > the mangy BIOS on my TP 600X. > I don't care anymore; updating to 2.6.16 solved my problems ;-) Now the Kernel boots without any Kernelparameters at all !