Re: [ACPI] acpi problem with nforce motherboards and ethernet

["Luis Miguel García" <ktech@wanadoo.es>]

(sorry with my sucking english)

ok, let me know if you know for me to test something with this newer mm 
kernels.

by the way, yes, I'm experiencing the lockups. Not with heavy io, but 
almost when I boot and enter X. The system gets completly frozzened and 
the HD led keps on. When I reboot with a sane kernel, I found several 
files from my /home directory are deleted or filled with garbage.

Now, I patch each kernel I use with the two patches Andrew sent to me 
and I'm having no problems.

Actually i'm running 2.6.2-ck1 + nforce-patches and the temperature of 
the system is 55º while idle, and 631 while compiling (only cpu fan, no 
case fans). I don't know if it's high (some people reported high 
temperatures with this patches) but it runs very well this way.

If you want for me to test some patches or something, please drop me a note.

Thanks a lot...

Luis Miguel García

P.S.: by the way, why am I getting strage "arabesque" characters when I 
reply to your emails? Perhaps something with wrong encoding?

>This is interesting, I will test it myself later on. At one point Len
>admitted to owning "foreign hardware :p" so maybe this could get resolved.
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>Personally I haven't tried kernels with newer forcedeth drivers, because I
>can no longer explicitely set the power state of the NIC to D3. The
>machine complains about irqs (new debugging code since forcedeth v.20 or
>so) and will not powerdown.
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>On another note, have you noticed lockups of your system with heavy io?
>Think of fsck'ing, burning cdroms, du on large dirs etc? Maybe it is
>helpful to set up a list of boards and document what works or doesn't work
>with which kernel. For instance the lockups with heavy io seem to be
>resolved here if I leave APIC from my kernel.
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>Arjen
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>On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, [ISO-8859-15] Luis Miguel Garc?a wrote:
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>>> Hi:
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>>> Since Andrew Morton picked up latest acpi bk updates, nforce motherboards have problems, mainly with ethernet adapters. Reporters say that with acpi=off, the problm gets fixed, so we think the problem could be acpi. Some more useful info:
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>>> On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Luis Miguel Garc?a wrote:
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>>>>> >> When I try to boot with latest mm series (such as actual rc3-mm1 or
>>>>> >> rc2-mm2), my nforce ethernet device doesn't works. It worked in the past
>>>>> >> with the forcedeth reverse engineered driver but now it keeps for 30 or
>>>>> >> more seconds halted (at boot) and then the network device dosn't run.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Here is the dmesg of rc3-mm1. Do you want for me to test something? Thanks!
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> P.S.:   The ACPI related messages are larger that in rc3.
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>>> My e100 on an nforce2 won't work in rc3-mm1.
>>> The "acpi=off" boot parameter makes it go.
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>>> And for the record, I can boot with that kernel and save one dmesg for you if you want. Only send me a request and I'll send it to you.
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>>> P.S.: Sent any messages you want directly to me as i'm not subscribed to acpi-devel.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Luis Miguel Garc?a
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>>>> >Which part of nforce support are you talking about luis?
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>>>> >On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
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>>>>> >> Luis Miguel Garc?a <ktech@wanadoo.es> wrote:
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>>>>>>> >>> > Andrew Morton wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> > >> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.2/2.6.2-mm1/
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>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> > >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> > >>
>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> > >> - Merged some page reclaim fixes from Nick and Nikita.  These yield some
>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> > >>  performance improvements in low memory and heavy paging situations.
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>>>>>>> >>> > Andrew, do you know if this acpi pull down has nforce support fixed?
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>>>>> >> It doesn't appear that way.
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>>>>>>> >>> > Or perhaps it's even unnotified to the acpi team?
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>>>>> >> I do not know.  Sending them a bugzilla ID would help, if such a thing exists.
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