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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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Subject: Re: 3.6.11  AMD-Vi: Completion-Wait loop timed out
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On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 01:03:16AM +0000, Jake wrote:
> ACPI BIOS Bug: Warning: Optional FADT field Pm2CintrolBlock has no address or length: 0x0000000000000000/0x1 (20121018/tbfadt-589)

I have the same one:

[    0.000000] ACPI BIOS Bug: Warning: Optional FADT field Pm2ControlBlock has zero address or length: 0x0000000000000000/0x1 (20130117/tbfadt-599)

We probably have the same ASUS crap for a board.

> I have no idea whether this is related to my shutdown problem or not and

I don't think so as I can suspend/resume/shutdown my box just fine. :)

> what I was hoping is if someone would advise me how to find help for
> my problem. I have tried all the normal routes for my distro (forum
> and irc) repeatedly, and googled my weeping eyes out - but to no
> avail.

Have you tried the upstream kernel yet? I hear 3.9-rc8 will be out
tomorrow :-)

HTH.

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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