Re: fc6 kernel 2.6.18-1.2798 breaks acpi on HP laptop n5430

[Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us>]

Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote:

>On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 09:40 -0500, Stephen Clark wrote:
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>>Sergio Monteiro Basto wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 22:03 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
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>>>>On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:08:31PM -0500, Stephen Clark wrote:
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>>>>>booting without lapic allowed it to boot but now I get
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>>>>>Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
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>>>>>Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
>>>>>  which means more processor overhead - right?
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>>>>>also cpuspeed doesn't work anymore - I don't have a cpufreq dir
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>>>>The Duron had powernow ?
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>>>This story of trying enable lapic when BIOS don't, has been triggered on
>>>kernel2.6.18, but in my opinion is not a bug if lapic on those computers
>>>don't work.
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>>>If you boot without enable lapic, you will see cat /proc/interrupts with
>>>interrupts in XT-PIC.
>>>if you try enable lapic, somehow IRQ routing should change 
>>>and if /proc/interrupts still the same, with IRQs in XT-PIC.
>>>I think, lapic still not enabled and the most you can get it's problems.
>>>Unless you know that lapic works (it is programmed and BIOS wrongly
>>>disable it), you shouldn't try enable lapic because it is probable that
>>>just give problems, to you. 
>>>Historically: In 2002/3 was a very common bug, when kernel was compiled
>>>to support lapic and try enable lapic (even when BIOS don't) and
>>>computer hangs on boot. 
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>>Loading the correct kernel arch 686 - fixes my powernow problems - this 
>>is a mobile duron.
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>>Booting with lapic worked fine on  fc5 kernel-2.6.18-2200 but it causes 
>>fc6 kernel-2.6.18-2798
>>to hang.
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>With lapic boot option enabled, have you a different /proc/interrupts ? 
>have you lapic working ? 
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No interrupt assignments are the same - but what about the hi-res timer 
the lapic is
supposed to have and linux is suppose to use?

Steve

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