* MSI S420 (based on MS-141214 barebone)
@ 2006-10-06 11:24 Dimitri Van Landuyt
2006-10-20 14:19 ` Dimitri Van Landuyt
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Dimitri Van Landuyt @ 2006-10-06 11:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-acpi
Dear acpi list,
I bought me a brand new laptop, MSI S420 based on the MS-141214
barebone): http://www.msicomputer.com/NB/product_spec.asp?model=MS-141214.
Of course, and too bad, not everything is supported in terms of acpi and
I am eager to look into this problem. I will enumerate on my issues
and observations here, hoping some willing ear would lend a helping hand.
I am running ubuntu edgy beta now which runs the 2.6.17-10 kernel and I
have seen the same issues in ubuntu dapper which has a 2.6.15 kernel.
1. When booting the machine in a default configuration, it hangs (kernel
does not respond to any sysrq key combinations) after the following lines:
using HPET for base-timer
using HPET for gettimeofday
Detected 2000.186 MHz processor
Using hpet for high-res timesource.
Playing with some kernel parameters, I notice the following behaviour:
no effects with pci=noacpi, acpi=force,noapic, nohpet, ...
What does work is: acpi=off but then I have no acpi at all, another
option I discovered is hpet=disable, which enables some of the acpi
functionalities.
2. with the hpet=disable parameter, I can see battery state, but
remainng time is calculated incorrectly (always giving the same amount
of minutes), plugging in and out the adapter is recognized however.
Reading temperature does not work as he always gives the constant heat
of 75 degrees. Cpu frequency scaling does not work.
3. output of dmesg | grep ACPI and dmesg are in attachment.
4. While booting the kernel, but apparently before putting things in the
kernel log, some messages appear (three), among which something about a
BIOS bug. They flash away too fast for me to write them down, so a way
of capturing these is appreciated.
5. Would fixing the DSDT (of which I read some stuff here and there) be
helpful in my case? Is it dangerous? Is there someone to walk me through it?
6. My BIOS is v1.01 and is definitely the current version as it is a
very new laptop in general.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Dimitri Van Landuyt
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* Re: MSI S420 (based on MS-141214 barebone)
2006-10-06 11:24 MSI S420 (based on MS-141214 barebone) Dimitri Van Landuyt
@ 2006-10-20 14:19 ` Dimitri Van Landuyt
2006-10-20 15:10 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Dimitri Van Landuyt @ 2006-10-20 14:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-acpi
Dear ACPI list,
further finding with my notebook:
A lot works out of the box with Ubuntu edgy: suspend, wireless, card
reader, ..., BUT:
- There is still the hpet issue, which - I think - screws up my thermal
readings (is that possible).
- The reason I'm thinking this is that every ACPI related thing works
well enough, except for fan control and temperature reading. Since my
fan is on all the time, this reduces my battery life drastically.
- Since these issues were happening with similar models (MSI S271 also
has this Ati chipset), and BIOS fixes resolved these issues, I am
planning to ask MSI for a BIOS upgrade.
- What I would love is someone who wants to look into this, so I can
present a reasonable case at MSI and make them release a fix for my
problems.
- Or, when the problem is the ACPI linux stuff, I want to look into how
fixing this. Again, help is appreciated!
dimitri@placeholder:~$ dmesg | grep ACPI
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000006ffd0000 - 000000006ffde000 (ACPI
data)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000006ffde000 - 0000000070000000 (ACPI NVS)
[17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 MSI
) @ 0x000f7ae0
[17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 MSI 1024 0x07072006 MSFT
0x00000097) @ 0x6ffd0000
[17179569.184000] ACPI: FADT (v002 MSI 1024 0x07072006 MSFT
0x00000097) @ 0x6ffd0200
[17179569.184000] ACPI: MADT (v001 MSI OEMAPIC 0x07072006 MSFT
0x00000097) @ 0x6ffd0390
[17179569.184000] ACPI: MCFG (v001 MSI OEMMCFG 0x07072006 MSFT
0x00000097) @ 0x6ffd03f0
[17179569.184000] ACPI: OEMB (v001 MSI MSI_OEM 0x07072006 MSFT
0x00000097) @ 0x6ffde040
[17179569.184000] ACPI: HPET (v001 MSI OEMHPET 0x07072006 MSFT
0x00000097) @ 0x6ffd4230
[17179569.184000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 MSI 1412X 0x07072006 INTL
0x02002026) @ 0x00000000
[17179569.184000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
[17179569.184000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
[17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 21 low
level)
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: HPET id: 0x0 base: 0xfed00000
[17179569.184000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
[17179573.608000] ACPI: Core revision 20060707
[17179573.608000] ACPI: Looking for DSDT ... not found!
[17179574.140000] ACPI: bus type pci registered
[17179574.156000] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[17179574.156000] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[17179574.156000] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
[17179574.156000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
[17179574.164000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT]
[17179574.164000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCE6._PRT]
[17179574.164000] ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC] (gpe 6) interrupt mode.
[17179574.168000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P0P9._PRT]
[17179574.168000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12
14 15) *0, disabled.
[17179574.168000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12
14 15) *0, disabled.
[17179574.168000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12
14 15) *0, disabled.
[17179574.168000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12
14 15) *0, disabled.
[17179574.172000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12
14 15) *0, disabled.
[17179574.172000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 9) *0, disabled.
[17179574.172000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12
14 15) *0, disabled.
[17179574.172000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12
14 15) *0, disabled.
[17179574.172000] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[17179574.172000] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
[17179574.172000] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
[17179574.172000] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[17179574.188000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
low) -> IRQ 177
[17179574.636000] ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
[17179575.740000] ACPI: duty_cycle spans bit 4
[17179575.740000] ACPI (exconfig-0455): Dynamic SSDT Load - OemId [
AMI] OemTableId [ CPU1PM] [20060707]
[17179575.740000] ACPI (exconfig-0455): Dynamic SSDT Load - OemId [
AMI] OemTableId [ CPU2PM] [20060707]
[17179575.744000] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (75 C)
[17179576.024000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
low) -> IRQ 201
[17179578.440000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
low) -> IRQ 177
[17179578.568000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
low) -> IRQ 177
[17179578.756000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
low) -> IRQ 177
[17179578.952000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.4[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
low) -> IRQ 177
[17179589.696000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:03.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level,
low) -> IRQ 209
[17179589.812000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
low) -> IRQ 177
[17179589.948000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
low) -> IRQ 201
[17179589.948000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
low) -> IRQ 177
[17179590.976000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:09.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
low) -> IRQ 201
[17179596.956000] ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (on-line)
[17179597.004000] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
[17179597.020000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[17179597.020000] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
[17179597.020000] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
[17179597.020000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[17179597.268000] ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no
post: no)
[17179600.968000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level,
low) -> IRQ 217
[17182085.196000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:03.0 disabled
[17182085.276000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:09.0 disabled
[17182089.604000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:04.2 disabled
[17182089.620000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:04.0 disabled
[17182090.088000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:01:05.0 disabled
[17182090.104000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:14.2 disabled
[17182090.104000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:13.2 disabled
[17182090.120000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:13.1 disabled
[17182090.120000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:13.0 disabled
[17185894.120000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
low) -> IRQ 177
[17185894.120000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
low) -> IRQ 177
[17185894.136000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
low) -> IRQ 177
[17185894.136000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
low) -> IRQ 201
[17185894.136000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
low) -> IRQ 201
[17185894.240000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level,
low) -> IRQ 217
[17185894.296000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
low) -> IRQ 177
[17185894.312000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
low) -> IRQ 177
[17185894.352000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.4[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
low) -> IRQ 177
[17185897.772000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:03.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level,
low) -> IRQ 209
[17185897.804000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:09.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
low) -> IRQ 201
[17185898.396000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[17185898.396000] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
[17185898.396000] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
[17185898.396000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[17185898.444000] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (75 C)
[17185898.496000] ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (on-line)
[17185898.528000] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
Thanks in advance!
Dimitri Van Landuyt wrote:
> Dear acpi list,
>
> I bought me a brand new laptop, MSI S420 based on the MS-141214
> barebone): http://www.msicomputer.com/NB/product_spec.asp?model=MS-141214.
>
> Of course, and too bad, not everything is supported in terms of acpi and
> I am eager to look into this problem. I will enumerate on my issues
> and observations here, hoping some willing ear would lend a helping hand.
>
> I am running ubuntu edgy beta now which runs the 2.6.17-10 kernel and I
> have seen the same issues in ubuntu dapper which has a 2.6.15 kernel.
>
> 1. When booting the machine in a default configuration, it hangs (kernel
> does not respond to any sysrq key combinations) after the following lines:
>
> using HPET for base-timer
> using HPET for gettimeofday
> Detected 2000.186 MHz processor
> Using hpet for high-res timesource.
>
> Playing with some kernel parameters, I notice the following behaviour:
> no effects with pci=noacpi, acpi=force,noapic, nohpet, ...
> What does work is: acpi=off but then I have no acpi at all, another
> option I discovered is hpet=disable, which enables some of the acpi
> functionalities.
>
> 2. with the hpet=disable parameter, I can see battery state, but
> remainng time is calculated incorrectly (always giving the same amount
> of minutes), plugging in and out the adapter is recognized however.
> Reading temperature does not work as he always gives the constant heat
> of 75 degrees. Cpu frequency scaling does not work.
>
> 3. output of dmesg | grep ACPI and dmesg are in attachment.
>
> 4. While booting the kernel, but apparently before putting things in the
> kernel log, some messages appear (three), among which something about a
> BIOS bug. They flash away too fast for me to write them down, so a way
> of capturing these is appreciated.
>
> 5. Would fixing the DSDT (of which I read some stuff here and there) be
> helpful in my case? Is it dangerous? Is there someone to walk me through
> it?
>
> 6. My BIOS is v1.01 and is definitely the current version as it is a
> very new laptop in general.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
>
> Dimitri Van Landuyt
>
>
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* Re: MSI S420 (based on MS-141214 barebone)
2006-10-20 14:19 ` Dimitri Van Landuyt
@ 2006-10-20 15:10 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-10-21 0:01 ` Dimitri Van Landuyt
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Alexey Starikovskiy @ 2006-10-20 15:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: dimitri.vanlanduyt; +Cc: linux-acpi
This should be a starting point, without DSDT ACPI will be disabled on your machine:
[17179573.608000] ACPI: Looking for DSDT ... not found!
Before, DSDT was listed among other tables, so it probably exists, but has wrong checksum
or it may be some huge problem with Ubuntu kernel...
Regards,
Alex.
Dimitri Van Landuyt wrote:
> Dear ACPI list,
>
> further finding with my notebook:
>
> A lot works out of the box with Ubuntu edgy: suspend, wireless, card
> reader, ..., BUT:
> - There is still the hpet issue, which - I think - screws up my thermal
> readings (is that possible).
> - The reason I'm thinking this is that every ACPI related thing works
> well enough, except for fan control and temperature reading. Since my
> fan is on all the time, this reduces my battery life drastically.
> - Since these issues were happening with similar models (MSI S271 also
> has this Ati chipset), and BIOS fixes resolved these issues, I am
> planning to ask MSI for a BIOS upgrade.
> - What I would love is someone who wants to look into this, so I can
> present a reasonable case at MSI and make them release a fix for my
> problems.
> - Or, when the problem is the ACPI linux stuff, I want to look into how
> fixing this. Again, help is appreciated!
>
>
>
> dimitri@placeholder:~$ dmesg | grep ACPI
> [17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000006ffd0000 - 000000006ffde000 (ACPI
> data)
> [17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000006ffde000 - 0000000070000000 (ACPI
> NVS)
> [17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 MSI ) @ 0x000f7ae0
> [17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 MSI 1024 0x07072006 MSFT
> 0x00000097) @ 0x6ffd0000
> [17179569.184000] ACPI: FADT (v002 MSI 1024 0x07072006 MSFT
> 0x00000097) @ 0x6ffd0200
> [17179569.184000] ACPI: MADT (v001 MSI OEMAPIC 0x07072006 MSFT
> 0x00000097) @ 0x6ffd0390
> [17179569.184000] ACPI: MCFG (v001 MSI OEMMCFG 0x07072006 MSFT
> 0x00000097) @ 0x6ffd03f0
> [17179569.184000] ACPI: OEMB (v001 MSI MSI_OEM 0x07072006 MSFT
> 0x00000097) @ 0x6ffde040
> [17179569.184000] ACPI: HPET (v001 MSI OEMHPET 0x07072006 MSFT
> 0x00000097) @ 0x6ffd4230
> [17179569.184000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 MSI 1412X 0x07072006 INTL
> 0x02002026) @ 0x00000000
> [17179569.184000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
> [17179569.184000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
> [17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
> [17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
> [17179569.184000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
> [17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
> [17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 21 low
> level)
> [17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
> [17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
> [17179569.184000] ACPI: HPET id: 0x0 base: 0xfed00000
> [17179569.184000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
> [17179573.608000] ACPI: Core revision 20060707
> [17179573.608000] ACPI: Looking for DSDT ... not found!
> [17179574.140000] ACPI: bus type pci registered
> [17179574.156000] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
> [17179574.156000] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
> [17179574.156000] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
> [17179574.156000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
> [17179574.164000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT]
> [17179574.164000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCE6._PRT]
> [17179574.164000] ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC] (gpe 6) interrupt mode.
> [17179574.168000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P0P9._PRT]
> [17179574.168000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12
> 14 15) *0, disabled.
> [17179574.168000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12
> 14 15) *0, disabled.
> [17179574.168000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12
> 14 15) *0, disabled.
> [17179574.168000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12
> 14 15) *0, disabled.
> [17179574.172000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12
> 14 15) *0, disabled.
> [17179574.172000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 9) *0, disabled.
> [17179574.172000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12
> 14 15) *0, disabled.
> [17179574.172000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12
> 14 15) *0, disabled.
> [17179574.172000] pnp: PnP ACPI init
> [17179574.172000] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
> [17179574.172000] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
> [17179574.172000] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
> [17179574.188000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 177
> [17179574.636000] ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
> [17179575.740000] ACPI: duty_cycle spans bit 4
> [17179575.740000] ACPI (exconfig-0455): Dynamic SSDT Load - OemId [ AMI]
> OemTableId [ CPU1PM] [20060707]
> [17179575.740000] ACPI (exconfig-0455): Dynamic SSDT Load - OemId [ AMI]
> OemTableId [ CPU2PM] [20060707]
> [17179575.744000] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (75 C)
> [17179576.024000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 201
> [17179578.440000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 177
> [17179578.568000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 177
> [17179578.756000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 177
> [17179578.952000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.4[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 177
> [17179589.696000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:03.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 209
> [17179589.812000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 177
> [17179589.948000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 201
> [17179589.948000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 177
> [17179590.976000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:09.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 201
> [17179596.956000] ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (on-line)
> [17179597.004000] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
> [17179597.020000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
> [17179597.020000] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
> [17179597.020000] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
> [17179597.020000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
> [17179597.268000] ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no
> post: no)
> [17179600.968000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 217
> [17182085.196000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:03.0 disabled
> [17182085.276000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:09.0 disabled
> [17182089.604000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:04.2 disabled
> [17182089.620000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:04.0 disabled
> [17182090.088000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:01:05.0 disabled
> [17182090.104000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:14.2 disabled
> [17182090.104000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:13.2 disabled
> [17182090.120000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:13.1 disabled
> [17182090.120000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:13.0 disabled
> [17185894.120000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 177
> [17185894.120000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 177
> [17185894.136000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 177
> [17185894.136000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 201
> [17185894.136000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 201
> [17185894.240000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 217
> [17185894.296000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 177
> [17185894.312000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 177
> [17185894.352000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.4[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 177
> [17185897.772000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:03.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 209
> [17185897.804000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:09.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
> low) -> IRQ 201
> [17185898.396000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
> [17185898.396000] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
> [17185898.396000] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
> [17185898.396000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
> [17185898.444000] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (75 C)
> [17185898.496000] ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (on-line)
> [17185898.528000] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
> Dimitri Van Landuyt wrote:
>> Dear acpi list,
>>
>> I bought me a brand new laptop, MSI S420 based on the MS-141214
>> barebone):
>> http://www.msicomputer.com/NB/product_spec.asp?model=MS-141214.
>>
>> Of course, and too bad, not everything is supported in terms of acpi
>> and I am eager to look into this problem. I will enumerate on my
>> issues and observations here, hoping some willing ear would lend a
>> helping hand.
>>
>> I am running ubuntu edgy beta now which runs the 2.6.17-10 kernel and
>> I have seen the same issues in ubuntu dapper which has a 2.6.15 kernel.
>>
>> 1. When booting the machine in a default configuration, it hangs
>> (kernel does not respond to any sysrq key combinations) after the
>> following lines:
>>
>> using HPET for base-timer
>> using HPET for gettimeofday
>> Detected 2000.186 MHz processor
>> Using hpet for high-res timesource.
>>
>> Playing with some kernel parameters, I notice the following behaviour:
>> no effects with pci=noacpi, acpi=force,noapic, nohpet, ...
>> What does work is: acpi=off but then I have no acpi at all, another
>> option I discovered is hpet=disable, which enables some of the acpi
>> functionalities.
>>
>> 2. with the hpet=disable parameter, I can see battery state, but
>> remainng time is calculated incorrectly (always giving the same amount
>> of minutes), plugging in and out the adapter is recognized however.
>> Reading temperature does not work as he always gives the constant heat
>> of 75 degrees. Cpu frequency scaling does not work.
>>
>> 3. output of dmesg | grep ACPI and dmesg are in attachment.
>>
>> 4. While booting the kernel, but apparently before putting things in
>> the kernel log, some messages appear (three), among which something
>> about a BIOS bug. They flash away too fast for me to write them down,
>> so a way of capturing these is appreciated.
>>
>> 5. Would fixing the DSDT (of which I read some stuff here and there)
>> be helpful in my case? Is it dangerous? Is there someone to walk me
>> through it?
>>
>> 6. My BIOS is v1.01 and is definitely the current version as it is a
>> very new laptop in general.
>>
>> Any help is greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Dimitri Van Landuyt
>>
>>
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* Re: MSI S420 (based on MS-141214 barebone)
2006-10-20 15:10 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
@ 2006-10-21 0:01 ` Dimitri Van Landuyt
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Dimitri Van Landuyt @ 2006-10-21 0:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alexey Starikovskiy; +Cc: linux-acpi
In this bugreport
(http://www.mail-archive.com/acpi-bugzilla@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03861.html)
about a different laptop the following is said about this laptop.
> ACPI: Looking for DSDT ... not found!
This message is not in the kernel.org kernel source tree, either
as of 2.6.15, or as of 2.6.18. While your system seems to have
plenty of other problems, ACPI did find the DSDT and it is running
normally.
I expect this message comes from the "initrd DSDT override patch"
that some distributions, such as SuSE and Ubuntu tend to add to
the kernel as their "value add" -- complain to them.
I do have the impression that ACPI is partially enabled: events such as
plugging out the adapter, closing the lid, ... are detected. Others
again arent (temperature does not work, etc). Furthermore, I do have a
non-empty /proc/acpi/dsdt.
Following this DSDT lead, I found the following page:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122145 and did the following
actions:
$ sudo cat /proc/acpi/dsdt > dsdt.dat
$ iasl -d dsdt.dat
Intel ACPI Component Architecture
AML Disassembler version 20060608 [Jun 29 2006]
Copyright (C) 2000 - 2006 Intel Corporation
Supports ACPI Specification Revision 3.0a
Loading Acpi table from file dsdt.dat
Acpi table [DSDT] successfully installed and loaded
Pass 1 parse of [DSDT]
Pass 2 parse of [DSDT]
Parsing Deferred Opcodes (Methods/Buffers/Packages/Regions)
............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Parsing completed
Disassembly completed, written to "dsdt.dsl"
$ iasl -tc dsdt.dsl
Intel ACPI Component Architecture
ASL Optimizing Compiler version 20060608 [Jun 29 2006]
Copyright (C) 2000 - 2006 Intel Corporation
Supports ACPI Specification Revision 3.0a
dsdt.dsl 3665: Acquire (MUTE, 0x03E8)
Warning 1103 - ^ Possible operator
timeout is ignored
dsdt.dsl 3679: Acquire (MUTE, 0x03E8)
Warning 1103 - ^ Possible operator
timeout is ignored
dsdt.dsl 3694: Acquire (MUTE, 0x03E8)
Warning 1103 - ^ Possible operator
timeout is ignored
dsdt.dsl 3709: Acquire (MUTE, 0x0FFF)
Warning 1103 - ^ Possible operator
timeout is ignored
dsdt.dsl 3723: Acquire (MUTE, 0x03E8)
Warning 1103 - ^ Possible operator
timeout is ignored
dsdt.dsl 3738: Acquire (MUTE, 0x03E8)
Warning 1103 - ^ Possible operator
timeout is ignored
dsdt.dsl 3753: Acquire (MUTE, 0x03E8)
Warning 1103 - ^ Possible operator
timeout is ignored
ASL Input: dsdt.dsl - 4020 lines, 126317 bytes, 1562 keywords
AML Output: dsdt.aml - 14609 bytes 626 named objects 936 executable opcodes
Compilation complete. 0 Errors, 7 Warnings, 0 Remarks, 611 Optimizations
So apparently my DSDT contains no errors and a few warnings. Maybe they
are causing the few functionalities not working?
Other leads I can pursue? How could this be related to the hpet=disable
kernel param I need to give before booting?
Thanks for your help!
Dimitri
Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> This should be a starting point, without DSDT ACPI will be disabled on your machine:
> [17179573.608000] ACPI: Looking for DSDT ... not found!
>
> Before, DSDT was listed among other tables, so it probably exists, but has wrong checksum
> or it may be some huge problem with Ubuntu kernel...
>
> Regards,
> Alex.
>
> Dimitri Van Landuyt wrote:
>
>> Dear ACPI list,
>>
>> further finding with my notebook:
>>
>> A lot works out of the box with Ubuntu edgy: suspend, wireless, card
>> reader, ..., BUT:
>> - There is still the hpet issue, which - I think - screws up my thermal
>> readings (is that possible).
>> - The reason I'm thinking this is that every ACPI related thing works
>> well enough, except for fan control and temperature reading. Since my
>> fan is on all the time, this reduces my battery life drastically.
>> - Since these issues were happening with similar models (MSI S271 also
>> has this Ati chipset), and BIOS fixes resolved these issues, I am
>> planning to ask MSI for a BIOS upgrade.
>> - What I would love is someone who wants to look into this, so I can
>> present a reasonable case at MSI and make them release a fix for my
>> problems.
>> - Or, when the problem is the ACPI linux stuff, I want to look into how
>> fixing this. Again, help is appreciated!
>>
>>
>>
>> dimitri@placeholder:~$ dmesg | grep ACPI
>> [17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000006ffd0000 - 000000006ffde000 (ACPI
>> data)
>> [17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000006ffde000 - 0000000070000000 (ACPI
>> NVS)
>> [17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 MSI ) @ 0x000f7ae0
>> [17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 MSI 1024 0x07072006 MSFT
>> 0x00000097) @ 0x6ffd0000
>> [17179569.184000] ACPI: FADT (v002 MSI 1024 0x07072006 MSFT
>> 0x00000097) @ 0x6ffd0200
>> [17179569.184000] ACPI: MADT (v001 MSI OEMAPIC 0x07072006 MSFT
>> 0x00000097) @ 0x6ffd0390
>> [17179569.184000] ACPI: MCFG (v001 MSI OEMMCFG 0x07072006 MSFT
>> 0x00000097) @ 0x6ffd03f0
>> [17179569.184000] ACPI: OEMB (v001 MSI MSI_OEM 0x07072006 MSFT
>> 0x00000097) @ 0x6ffde040
>> [17179569.184000] ACPI: HPET (v001 MSI OEMHPET 0x07072006 MSFT
>> 0x00000097) @ 0x6ffd4230
>> [17179569.184000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 MSI 1412X 0x07072006 INTL
>> 0x02002026) @ 0x00000000
>> [17179569.184000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
>> [17179569.184000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
>> [17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
>> [17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
>> [17179569.184000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
>> [17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
>> [17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 21 low
>> level)
>> [17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
>> [17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
>> [17179569.184000] ACPI: HPET id: 0x0 base: 0xfed00000
>> [17179569.184000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
>> [17179573.608000] ACPI: Core revision 20060707
>> [17179573.608000] ACPI: Looking for DSDT ... not found!
>> [17179574.140000] ACPI: bus type pci registered
>> [17179574.156000] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
>> [17179574.156000] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
>> [17179574.156000] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
>> [17179574.156000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
>> [17179574.164000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT]
>> [17179574.164000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCE6._PRT]
>> [17179574.164000] ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC] (gpe 6) interrupt mode.
>> [17179574.168000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P0P9._PRT]
>> [17179574.168000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12
>> 14 15) *0, disabled.
>> [17179574.168000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12
>> 14 15) *0, disabled.
>> [17179574.168000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12
>> 14 15) *0, disabled.
>> [17179574.168000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12
>> 14 15) *0, disabled.
>> [17179574.172000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12
>> 14 15) *0, disabled.
>> [17179574.172000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 9) *0, disabled.
>> [17179574.172000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12
>> 14 15) *0, disabled.
>> [17179574.172000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12
>> 14 15) *0, disabled.
>> [17179574.172000] pnp: PnP ACPI init
>> [17179574.172000] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
>> [17179574.172000] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
>> [17179574.172000] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
>> [17179574.188000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 177
>> [17179574.636000] ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
>> [17179575.740000] ACPI: duty_cycle spans bit 4
>> [17179575.740000] ACPI (exconfig-0455): Dynamic SSDT Load - OemId [ AMI]
>> OemTableId [ CPU1PM] [20060707]
>> [17179575.740000] ACPI (exconfig-0455): Dynamic SSDT Load - OemId [ AMI]
>> OemTableId [ CPU2PM] [20060707]
>> [17179575.744000] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (75 C)
>> [17179576.024000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 201
>> [17179578.440000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 177
>> [17179578.568000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 177
>> [17179578.756000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 177
>> [17179578.952000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.4[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 177
>> [17179589.696000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:03.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 209
>> [17179589.812000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 177
>> [17179589.948000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 201
>> [17179589.948000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 177
>> [17179590.976000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:09.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 201
>> [17179596.956000] ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (on-line)
>> [17179597.004000] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
>> [17179597.020000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
>> [17179597.020000] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
>> [17179597.020000] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
>> [17179597.020000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
>> [17179597.268000] ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no
>> post: no)
>> [17179600.968000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 217
>> [17182085.196000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:03.0 disabled
>> [17182085.276000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:09.0 disabled
>> [17182089.604000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:04.2 disabled
>> [17182089.620000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:04.0 disabled
>> [17182090.088000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:01:05.0 disabled
>> [17182090.104000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:14.2 disabled
>> [17182090.104000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:13.2 disabled
>> [17182090.120000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:13.1 disabled
>> [17182090.120000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:13.0 disabled
>> [17185894.120000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 177
>> [17185894.120000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 177
>> [17185894.136000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 177
>> [17185894.136000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 201
>> [17185894.136000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 201
>> [17185894.240000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 217
>> [17185894.296000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 177
>> [17185894.312000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 177
>> [17185894.352000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:04.4[A] -> GSI 19 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 177
>> [17185897.772000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:03.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 209
>> [17185897.804000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:09.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level,
>> low) -> IRQ 201
>> [17185898.396000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
>> [17185898.396000] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
>> [17185898.396000] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
>> [17185898.396000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
>> [17185898.444000] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (75 C)
>> [17185898.496000] ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (on-line)
>> [17185898.528000] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>>
>> Dimitri Van Landuyt wrote:
>>
>>> Dear acpi list,
>>>
>>> I bought me a brand new laptop, MSI S420 based on the MS-141214
>>> barebone):
>>> http://www.msicomputer.com/NB/product_spec.asp?model=MS-141214.
>>>
>>> Of course, and too bad, not everything is supported in terms of acpi
>>> and I am eager to look into this problem. I will enumerate on my
>>> issues and observations here, hoping some willing ear would lend a
>>> helping hand.
>>>
>>> I am running ubuntu edgy beta now which runs the 2.6.17-10 kernel and
>>> I have seen the same issues in ubuntu dapper which has a 2.6.15 kernel.
>>>
>>> 1. When booting the machine in a default configuration, it hangs
>>> (kernel does not respond to any sysrq key combinations) after the
>>> following lines:
>>>
>>> using HPET for base-timer
>>> using HPET for gettimeofday
>>> Detected 2000.186 MHz processor
>>> Using hpet for high-res timesource.
>>>
>>> Playing with some kernel parameters, I notice the following behaviour:
>>> no effects with pci=noacpi, acpi=force,noapic, nohpet, ...
>>> What does work is: acpi=off but then I have no acpi at all, another
>>> option I discovered is hpet=disable, which enables some of the acpi
>>> functionalities.
>>>
>>> 2. with the hpet=disable parameter, I can see battery state, but
>>> remainng time is calculated incorrectly (always giving the same amount
>>> of minutes), plugging in and out the adapter is recognized however.
>>> Reading temperature does not work as he always gives the constant heat
>>> of 75 degrees. Cpu frequency scaling does not work.
>>>
>>> 3. output of dmesg | grep ACPI and dmesg are in attachment.
>>>
>>> 4. While booting the kernel, but apparently before putting things in
>>> the kernel log, some messages appear (three), among which something
>>> about a BIOS bug. They flash away too fast for me to write them down,
>>> so a way of capturing these is appreciated.
>>>
>>> 5. Would fixing the DSDT (of which I read some stuff here and there)
>>> be helpful in my case? Is it dangerous? Is there someone to walk me
>>> through it?
>>>
>>> 6. My BIOS is v1.01 and is definitely the current version as it is a
>>> very new laptop in general.
>>>
>>> Any help is greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>> Dimitri Van Landuyt
>>>
>>>
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