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

From: Stephen Clark
Date: Wed Nov 01 2006 - 20:50:40 EST


Stephen Clark wrote:

Dave Jones wrote:



On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 04:17:50PM -0500, Stephen Clark wrote:



BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001ffff000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ffff000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
511MB LOWMEM available.
Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection
DMI 2.2 present.
Using APIC driver default
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x8008
Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 20000000:dff80000)
Detected 850.075 MHz processor.
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 131056
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 lapic nousb console=ttyS0,38400
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!


Does it make a difference if you boot with nolapic ?

Dave





Hi Dave,

booting without lapic allowed it to boot but now I get
...
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
...
Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
which means more processor overhead - right?

also cpuspeed doesn't work anymore - I don't have a cpufreq dir

I don't get the following messages with kernel 2798
powernow: PowerNOW! Technology present. Can scale: frequency and voltage.
Nov 1 19:33:34 joker4 kernel: powernow: SGTC: 10000
Nov 1 19:33:34 joker4 kernel: powernow: Minimum speed 300 MHz. Maximum speed 850 M
Hz.
Nov 1 19:33:34 joker4 kernel: powernow-k8: Processor cpuid 670 not supported

Steve





I removed and reinstalled the kernel, it seems FC6 upgrade
installed a 586 kernel - now the only problem I have is my
local apic is not being used.

Steve

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