From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: Toshiba Satellite ACPI problems Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:01:03 -0600 Message-ID: <4B0B3E5F.4060102@gmail.com> References: <525c5a6c0911231620u6d23810fu9fed3605617fe421@mail.gmail.com> <200911240137.39266.rjw@sisk.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f212.google.com ([209.85.217.212]:37664 "EHLO mail-gx0-f212.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752254AbZKXCBA (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:01:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200911240137.39266.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Mike Smith , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ACPI Devel Maling List On 11/23/2009 06:37 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > [Adding linux-acpi to the CC list.] > > On Tuesday 24 November 2009, Mike Smith wrote: >> I have a brand new Satellite L505D-S5983 which I'm trying to install >> Linux on. Whenever I boot a Linux kernel on it with no special >> parameters it enters an in(de)finite loop dumping messages like this: >> >> ACPI Error (uteval-0313): Return object type is incorrect >> [\_SB_.HSB1._STA] (Node ffff8800af8121a0), AE_TYPE >> ACPI Error: Type returned from _STA was incorrect: Device, expected >> Btypes: 1 20090521 uteval-319 >> ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [DR ] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND >> ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed >> [\_SB_.VALZ._STA] (Node ffff8800af812540), AE_NOT_FOUND >> ACPI Error: Found unknown opcode 39 at AML address ffffc900000132cd >> offset 0, ignoring 20090521 psloop-137 >> [...] Hmm, that looks really unhappy.. >> >> If I boot with acpi=noirq these messages only continue for a few >> seconds, although they cause a couple of initscripts to hang later on. >> With ACPI fully enabled they keep appearing forever and the system >> doesn't finish booting. With acpi=off they don't appear at all (but >> the fan stays at low speed and the laptop gets quite hot if run for >> more than a few minutes). >> >> I've found only one other mention of this problem on the internet >> (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8358864#post8358864) from >> someone with the same laptop as mine, but there was no working fix >> posted to that thread beyond completely disabling ACPI. More research >> told me that there used to be a way of fixing up the DSDT and having >> it loaded from the initrd but the new policy is to just ask the >> manufacturer to fix it and the kernel developers to work around it, >> so... here it is. (Angry emails to Toshiba and Best Buy pending.) >> >> Full dmesg output can be found at http://slexy.org/view/s25zU08AKJ >> (By the way, what's the correct way to include dmesg output in a lkml >> message if you don't know for sure which parts are relevant? Dumping >> all 50k or so of it into the email seems like the wrong thing to >> do...) > > I think it's better if you file a bug report against ACPI at bugzilla.kernel.org. Can you extract and post the DSDT in either raw or decompiled form, as described here: http://smackerelofopinion.blogspot.com/2009/10/dumping-acpi-tables-using-acpidump-and.html