Re: 2.6.13-rc6-git10 test report [x86_64](WITHOUT NVIDIA MODULE)

Joseph Fannin
2005-08-20T21:35:38Z

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 09:22:09AM -0700, Peter Buckingham wrote:

> >The machine is working quite a bit better with pci=noacpi in leu of
> >disabling ACPI in the BIOS, but there are still those nasty errors in
> >reference to the ACPI tables being broken:
> > ACPI-0362: *** Error: Looking up [\_SB_.PCI0.LNK0] in namespace,
> >AE_NOT_FOUND
> >search_node ffff8101428572c0 start_node ffff8101428572c0 return_node
> >0000000000000000
>
> since it doesn't look like you'll get a bios fix for this you may want
> to look at building a custom dsdt. the kernel can load a custom dsdt
> from an initrd/initramfs. have a look at the acpi site (acpi.sf.net?).
> they talk about what's needed to do this. basically you can get your
> dsdt from /proc/acpi/dsdt and disassemble it using the iasl tools, fix
> it and then load it with an initrd. note that this is not really a
> trivial task :-(

Also, please file a bug report against the ACPI component at
http://bugzilla.kernel.org . Ultimately the Linux ACPI component must
deal with these sorts of errors, or convince the BIOS authors not to
make them!

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