Re: Sony Vaio VGN-SZ340 (was Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP)

[Len Brown]

On Friday 05 January 2007 12:24, MoRpHeUz wrote:
> > What workaround are you using?
> 
>  This one: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7465

Ah yes, the duplicate MADT issue is clearly a BIOS bug.
It is possible that we can tweak our Linux workaround for it to be more
Microsoft Windows Bug Compatbile(TM).

> > The frequency scaling issue sounds like a BIOS/Linux incompatibility.

It looks like this issue results from that above,
rather than being an additional problem.

> > The nvidia issue sounds like an interrupt issue, so please reproduce
> > it using the open source nvidia driver (not the nvidia binary),
> > and include the lspci -vv output, dmesg, and /proc/interrupts.
> 
>   Will try that !

If interrupts fail using the open source nvidia driver, (and using the workaround
from the bug above to use the right MADT, please open a new bug report
as I think it would be an independent issue.

thanks,
-Len
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