Re: 2.5.70 freezes when running hwclock
From: Michael Frank (mflt1@micrologica.com.hk)
Date: Sat May 31 2003 - 05:52:51 EST
On Saturday 31 May 2003 16:05, Éric Brunet wrote:
> I have tried 2.5.70 on an intel chipset based pc, and I
> got a reproductible complete freeze during the boot
> process when hwclock is run. Even Caps Lock wouldn't lit
> the little led.
>
> Removing the offending line, 2.5.70 seemed to work... I
> haven't fully tried it yet.
>
> Is this problem known/identified/fixed yet, or do you
> want a more complete bug report ?
This seems to be an ACPI related problem on ALI 1533/1535
compatible implementations frequently seen on Toshiba's.
As a workaround, Boot with ACPI=off and add --directisa to
hwclock lines in rc.sysinit and halt (or their equivalents)
If this is really an Intel chipset it would be a first
Please post your problem, solution and system info and lspci
to ACPI list.
Regards
Michael
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