From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 04:54:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 04:53:54 -0500 Received: from mr14.vic-remote.bigpond.net.au ([24.192.1.29]:53215 "EHLO mr14.vic-remote.bigpond.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 04:53:45 -0500 Message-ID: <000b01c07c7d$fba05980$0201a8c0@vaio> From: "Robert Lowery" To: "Jeff Garzik" , "Nathan Thompson" Cc: In-Reply-To: <001801c07bc4$e95ee250$0201a8c0@vaio> <20010111095853.A4442@eliot.thebog.net> <3A5DCB9D.2DAF83AF@mandrakesoft.com> Subject: Re: ACPI lockup on boot in 2.4.0 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:56:48 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thank-you for the pointers. Looking at the ACPI mailing list, it appears that the ACPI code gets stuck in an infinite loop with many of the VAIO notebooks. So it:s back to APM for now -Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Garzik" To: "Nathan Thompson" Cc: "Robert Lowery" ; Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 2:05 AM Subject: Re: ACPI lockup on boot in 2.4.0 > Nathan Thompson wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 10:51:59PM +1100, Robert Lowery wrote: > > > > > I compiled it with ACPI compiled as a module and APM not compiled in at all, but on booting I get the following. > > > ACPI: System description tables found > > > ACPI: System description tables loaded > > > > > > and then the system locks up.. > > > > I have a Sony Vaio PCG-F350 that behaves the same way. I compiled in > > ACPI (not a module) and never got further than this. When I enabled APM > > and disabled ACPI everything started to work. > > To get a more verbose failure scenario, grab the ACPI debug version from > http://developer.intel.com/technology/IAPC/acpi/downloads.htm > > Jeff > > > -- > Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of > Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded guns > MandrakeSoft | and those who dig. You dig." --Blondie > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/