* Re: Toshiba Satellite ACPI problems [not found] <525c5a6c0911231620u6d23810fu9fed3605617fe421@mail.gmail.com> @ 2009-11-24 0:37 ` Rafael J. Wysocki 2009-11-24 2:01 ` Robert Hancock 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Rafael J. Wysocki @ 2009-11-24 0:37 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Mike Smith; +Cc: linux-kernel, ACPI Devel Maling List [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 > [...] > > 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. Thanks, Rafael ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: Toshiba Satellite ACPI problems 2009-11-24 0:37 ` Toshiba Satellite ACPI problems Rafael J. Wysocki @ 2009-11-24 2:01 ` Robert Hancock 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Robert Hancock @ 2009-11-24 2:01 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Rafael J. Wysocki; +Cc: Mike Smith, linux-kernel, 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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