Re: 2.6.14-rc1 on ATI hangs when executing _STA and _INI methods

Peter Osterlund
2005-09-14T22:41:14Z

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> On Wed, 15 Sep 2005, Peter Osterlund wrote:
> >
> > My Compaq Presario R3057EA hangs during ACPI initialization. The last
> > message is "Executing all Device _STA and _INI methods". git bisect
> > told me that:
> >
> > 66759a01adbfe8828dd063e32cf5ed3f46696181 is first bad commit
> > diff-tree 66759a01adbfe8828dd063e32cf5ed3f46696181 (from 049cdefe19f95b67b06b70915cd8e4ae7173337a)
> > Author: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
> > Date: Mon Sep 12 18:49:25 2005 +0200
> >
> > [PATCH] x86-64: i386/x86-64: Fix time going twice as fast problem on ATI Xpress chipsets
> >
> > Passing enable_timer_pin_1 as a kernel boot parameter doesn't help,
> > but this patch does:
>
> Ok. That patch has been one big pain, and was clearly totally half-baked.
> I think I'll disable the automated checks, since they are clearly wrong.
> You can still enable it manually with a kernel command line.
>
> So something like this.. I assume this works for you?

Yes it does.

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