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

[Luis Miguel García]

David Ford wrote:

> 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?


I'm using nforce2-apic.patch and nforce2-disconnect-quirk.patch that 
Andrew Morton have sent to me. I think they have been included in 
previous mm kernels but now are droped because they caused some 
temperature problems for some people with no nforce motherboards.

If you want it, I can send it to you.

By the way, is anyone involved in solving the IO-APIC thing in nforce 
motherboards? Anyone trying a different approach? Anyone contacting 
nvidia about this problem?


> 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.

I don't think this could be a reiserfs problem, because all the computer 
gets frezzed and locked, but perhaps someone at Namesys can realize why 
files gets deleted all over the hard disc.



Thanks.

Luis Miguel Garcia


> 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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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