From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757119AbZKXAhO (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:37:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752671AbZKXAhN (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:37:13 -0500 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:40080 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752540AbZKXAhN (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:37:13 -0500 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: Toshiba Satellite ACPI problems Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:37:39 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.3 (Linux/2.6.32-rc8-rjw; KDE/4.3.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ACPI Devel Maling List References: <525c5a6c0911231620u6d23810fu9fed3605617fe421@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <525c5a6c0911231620u6d23810fu9fed3605617fe421@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911240137.39266.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [Adding linux-acpi to the CC list.] On Tuesday 24 November 2009, Mike Smith wrote: > I have a brand new Satellite L505D-S5983 which I'm trying to install > Linux on. Whenever I boot a Linux kernel on it with no special > parameters it enters an in(de)finite loop dumping messages like this: > > ACPI Error (uteval-0313): Return object type is incorrect > [\_SB_.HSB1._STA] (Node ffff8800af8121a0), AE_TYPE > ACPI Error: Type returned from _STA was incorrect: Device, expected > Btypes: 1 20090521 uteval-319 > ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [DR ] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND > ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed > [\_SB_.VALZ._STA] (Node ffff8800af812540), AE_NOT_FOUND > ACPI Error: Found unknown opcode 39 at AML address ffffc900000132cd > offset 0, ignoring 20090521 psloop-137 > [...] > > If I boot with acpi=noirq these messages only continue for a few > seconds, although they cause a couple of initscripts to hang later on. > With ACPI fully enabled they keep appearing forever and the system > doesn't finish booting. With acpi=off they don't appear at all (but > the fan stays at low speed and the laptop gets quite hot if run for > more than a few minutes). > > I've found only one other mention of this problem on the internet > (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8358864#post8358864) from > someone with the same laptop as mine, but there was no working fix > posted to that thread beyond completely disabling ACPI. More research > told me that there used to be a way of fixing up the DSDT and having > it loaded from the initrd but the new policy is to just ask the > manufacturer to fix it and the kernel developers to work around it, > so... here it is. (Angry emails to Toshiba and Best Buy pending.) > > Full dmesg output can be found at http://slexy.org/view/s25zU08AKJ > (By the way, what's the correct way to include dmesg output in a lkml > message if you don't know for sure which parts are relevant? Dumping > all 50k or so of it into the email seems like the wrong thing to > do...) I think it's better if you file a bug report against ACPI at bugzilla.kernel.org. Thanks, Rafael