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

[David Ford <david+challenge-response@blue-labs.org>]

I have the same problem.  I "solved" it a while ago by mucking with the 
AGP stuff.  IIRC, it was turning off AGP fast writes or 8x or something 
similar in cmos.  Went from incredibly broken to stable instantly.  I'll 
check my cmos settings in a bit and refresh my memory.

What patches are you using?

p.s. reiserfs is pretty useless against crashes.  hundreds of files 
around the harddrive get messed up everytime the machine locks 
up...files that haven't been used in weeks, as well as files opened 
read-only, i.e. libraries.

Luis Miguel García wrote:

> (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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Arjen
>>
>> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, [ISO-8859-15] Luis Miguel Garc?a wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>> Hi:
>>>>
>>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Luis Miguel Garc?a wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>>>> >> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>
>>>> My e100 on an nforce2 won't work in rc3-mm1.
>>>> The "acpi=off" boot parameter makes it go.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> P.S.: Sent any messages you want directly to me as i'm not 
>>>> subscribed to acpi-devel.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Luis Miguel Garc?a
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>>> >Which part of nforce support are you talking about luis?
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>>> >On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>>>> >> Luis Miguel Garc?a <ktech@wanadoo.es> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>>>>> >>> >
>>>>>>>> >>> > Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>>>>>> >>> >
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>           
>>>>>>
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> >>>> > >
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>>> >>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> > >> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.2/2.6.2-mm1/ 
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> > >>
>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> > >>
>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> > >>
>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> > >> - Merged some page reclaim fixes from Nick and 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Nikita.  These yield some
>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> > >>  performance improvements in low memory and 
>>>>>>>>>>>> heavy paging situations.
>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> > >>
>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>> > >>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>                   
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>> >>>>
>>>>>>>> >>> >
>>>>>>>> >>> > Andrew, do you know if this acpi pull down has nforce 
>>>>>>>> support fixed?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>           
>>>>>>
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> It doesn't appear that way.
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>>>>> >>> > Or perhaps it's even unnotified to the acpi team?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>           
>>>>>>
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> I do not know.  Sending them a bugzilla ID would help, if such 
>>>>>> a thing exists.
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >>
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