From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Olivier Berger Subject: Re: Incorrect ACPI blacklisting of ASUS P4B266 ? Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:22:23 +0200 Message-ID: <87preupy80.fsf@olivierberger.com> References: <87k5691x3y.fsf@olivierberger.com> <200904281339.15689.trenn@suse.de> <877i14aed8.fsf@olivierberger.com> <200904281956.50640.trenn@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from smtp6-g21.free.fr ([212.27.42.6]:35267 "EHLO smtp6-g21.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750763AbZD3EWd (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:22:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200904281956.50640.trenn@suse.de> (Thomas Renninger's message of "Tue\, 28 Apr 2009 19\:56\:49 +0200") Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Renninger Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Thomas Renninger writes: > On Tuesday 28 April 2009 19:15:47 Olivier Berger wrote: >> Thomas Renninger writes: > > >> I'm thinking about some kind of warning message that might be provided >> by the kernel. >> >> Currently, the blacklisting issues something like : >> xxx detected : force use of acpi=ht >> >> Maybe in some greylisted cases (like such ASUS P4B266), an additional >> message may be issued, something like : >> xxx detected : may work with acpi=force (test at own risk) >> or something like that ? > Sounds like a good idea. > Something like that (not tested at all). > I could imagine Len adds this one if you give it a try and see > the message popping up in dmesg. I can confirm this works. Here's the dmesg : Apr 29 23:17:42 asustour kernel: [ 0.000000] ASUS P4B266 detected: force use of acpi=ht Apr 29 23:17:42 asustour kernel: [ 0.000000] Latest BIOSes might work better with acpi=force Hope this is would be at least better than previous state. Thanks for your help. Best regards, -- Olivier BERGER (OpenPGP: 1024D/B4C5F37F) http://www.olivierberger.com/weblog/