Hello kernel developers,
I do have two problems with running Linux on my Sony Vaio PCG-FX501 Laptop.
1.) When I do a reboot, the bootup logo (a nice animation from Sony :-)
displays, and the HD light turns on and stays on forever. Approximately 30
seconds later, the logo goes away, and I do see the Phoenix BIOS' startup
screen, saying
ERROR
0211: Keyboard Error
I do have the option to use <F2> to enter Setup, but due to some strange 0211
keyboard error it just won't work. The only proper way for restarting my
machine is to power it off and turn it on again.
What can I do?
2.) The laptop seems to put itself to sleep when I don't do anything for a
longer period of time. The display becomes black (the backlight is still on,
though) and I can't do anything except powering off and on again to make the
machine work again. No messages about anything interesting are in my syslog
files after this has happened. The problem persists both with ACPI and APM.
The only thing that fixes this problem is loading or installing the sonypi
driver into the kernel. It doesn't function as expected, but it solves at
least *this* problem. (As documented in the driver, sonypi should be able to
set/get the backlight intensity of the display, but that doesn't work. There
are even more features that it has but that are non-operational on my
system.)
This is all okay, especially as I can now leave my laptop alone for even more
than 10 minutes or so without having the need to turn it off and on again
afterwards. OTOH, with sonypi my via82cxxx_audio driver won't work.
When compiled into kernel, I see the follwing message:
Via 686a audio driver 1.9.1
PCI: Assigned IRQ 5 for device 00:07.5
PCI: Unable to reserve I/O region #1:100@1000 for device 00:07.5
Trying to free nonexistent resource <00001000-000010ff>
Trying to free nonexistent resource <00001c54-00001c57>
Trying to free nonexistent resource <00001c50-00001c53>
PCI dev 00:07.5 is the AC97 sound controller (lspci output):
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio
Controller (rev 50)
In my /proc/ioports, I do see that the two devices have intersecting I/O
ranges:
1000-10ff : VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller
1080-109f : Sony Programable I/O Device
I dunno much about kernel or PCI internals but I guess that this is the
problem for the "Unable to reserve I/O region message - tell me if I am
wrong. I also have found a pci_request_region() call inside the
via82cxxx_audio driver but I don't know how to modify that call so it does
only request the I/O regions that do not mix with sonypi's range - and of
course, I don't know if this would be good, but as the two devices co-exist
nicely and my sound is working as long as sonypi is neither modprobed nor
compiled in, I suspect it to work as soon as I can pci_request_region() only
those I/O portions that are still free. So if someone could tell me how to do
this (just in case no one states "Will break your kernel forever" or "Won't
even work after that") I'd try it on my machine. I could even try to create a
patch from it (it would be my first patch to an already existing piece of
software... :-) and post it here - I am very interested in doing some work to
make Linux better for tomorrow.
So, just for completeness, here's my system configuration:
Mobile AMD Duron Processor, 1GHz
256MB RAM
IDE hard disk and CD/DVD ROM
sonypi driver startup message:
sonypi: Sony Programmable I/O Controller Driver v1.10.
sonypi: detected type2 model, camera = off, compat = off
sonypi: enabled at irq=11, port1=0x1080, port2=0x1084
sonypi: device allocated minor is 63
lscpi output:
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev
40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 1a)
00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 1a)
00:07.4 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev
40)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio
Controller (rev 50)
00:07.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Modem Controller
(rev 30)
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
00:0a.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
00:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8020
00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP
2x (rev 64)
Complete /proc/ioports:
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0376-0376 : ide1
03c0-03df : vesafb
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
1000-10ff : VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller
1080-109f : Sony Programable I/O Device
1400-14ff : VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Modem Controller
1800-18ff : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139
1800-18ff : 8139too
1c00-1c1f : VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB
1c20-1c3f : VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (#2)
1c40-1c4f : VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE
1c40-1c47 : ide0
1c48-1c4f : ide1
1c50-1c53 : VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller
1c54-1c57 : VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller
6800-687f : VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
8100-810f : VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
9000-9fff : PCI Bus #01
9000-90ff : ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x
/proc/iomem:
00000000-0009efff : System RAM
0009f000-0009ffff : reserved
000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area
000c0000-000c7fff : Video ROM
000f0000-000fffff : System ROM
00100000-0feeffff : System RAM
00100000-002db2b7 : Kernel code
002db2b8-0037ef57 : Kernel data
0fef0000-0fefefff : ACPI Tables
0feff000-0fefffff : ACPI Non-volatile Storage
0ff00000-0fffffff : System RAM
10000000-10000fff : Texas Instruments PCI1420
10001000-10001fff : Texas Instruments PCI1420 (#2)
e8000000-e8003fff : PCI device 104c:8020 (Texas Instruments)
e8004000-e80047ff : PCI device 104c:8020 (Texas Instruments)
e8004800-e80048ff : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139
e8004800-e80048ff : 8139too
e8100000-e9ffffff : PCI Bus #01
e8100000-e8100fff : ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x
e9000000-e9ffffff : ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x
e9000000-e97effff : vesafb
f0000000-f7ffffff : VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133]
fffe0000-ffffffff : reserved
Please ask if you need any further information. Thank you for your work and
for your work on Linux, it's great!
Stephan
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Stephan Maciej wrote:
> I do have two problems with running Linux on my Sony Vaio PCG-FX501 Laptop.
I do not know if this will help at all, but I've had good luck applying
the acpi patches from sourceforge.net/projects/acpi, in getting by Vaio
GR390 to work.
--
-- John E. Jasen ([email protected])
-- User Error #2361: Please insert coffee and try again.
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 05:28:39PM +0200, Stephan Maciej wrote:
> I do have two problems with running Linux on my Sony Vaio PCG-FX501 Laptop.
I have a FX505, which basically is a FX501 with Athlon 1.2GHz and some
other goodies.
> 1.) When I do a reboot, the bootup logo (a nice animation from Sony :-)
> displays, and the HD light turns on and stays on forever. Approximately 30
> seconds later, the logo goes away, and I do see the Phoenix BIOS' startup
> screen, saying
>
> ERROR
> 0211: Keyboard Error
>
> I do have the option to use <F2> to enter Setup, but due to some strange 0211
> keyboard error it just won't work. The only proper way for restarting my
> machine is to power it off and turn it on again.
>
> What can I do?
1) Update the BIOS, my laptop shipped with an old version and a BIOS
update fixed some keyboard related problems. (you need to boot into
windows for this)
2) Apply the latest ACPI patch.
> 2.) The laptop seems to put itself to sleep when I don't do anything for a
> longer period of time. The display becomes black (the backlight is still on,
> though) and I can't do anything except powering off and on again to make the
> machine work again. No messages about anything interesting are in my syslog
> files after this has happened. The problem persists both with ACPI and APM.
>
> The only thing that fixes this problem is loading or installing the sonypi
> driver into the kernel. It doesn't function as expected, but it solves at
> least *this* problem. (As documented in the driver, sonypi should be able to
> set/get the backlight intensity of the display, but that doesn't work. There
> are even more features that it has but that are non-operational on my
> system.)
My FX505 doesn't need the sonypi driver. With APM I can suspend the
computer but the CPU fan won't turn off; with ACPI the CPU fan turns
off, but I can't suspend the computer. Anyway, the latest ACPI patch
makes it a lot more quiet.
> This is all okay, especially as I can now leave my laptop alone for even more
> than 10 minutes or so without having the need to turn it off and on again
> afterwards. OTOH, with sonypi my via82cxxx_audio driver won't work.
>
> When compiled into kernel, I see the follwing message:
Use the ALSA-0.9 series driver instead of the kernel driver.
> So, just for completeness, here's my system configuration:
>
> Mobile AMD Duron Processor, 1GHz
> 256MB RAM
> IDE hard disk and CD/DVD ROM
You forgot to tell which kernel version you are currently using.
Anyway, linux-2.4.19-pre5 + acpi-20020329-2.4.18 works for me.
Erik
--
J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Faculty
of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology,
PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635
Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: [email protected]
WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 05:28:39PM +0200, Stephan Maciej wrote:
> The only thing that fixes this problem is loading or installing the sonypi
> driver into the kernel. It doesn't function as expected, but it solves at
> least *this* problem.
[...]
I suppose you load the sonypi driver with the 'fnkeyinit=1' parameter,
right ? In this case, the sonypi mode will enable the ACPI mode
which seems to do the trick for you.
Getting the latest BIOS update from Sony (could be labeled as a
windows XP bios update or something like this) and the latest ACPI
patch from http://acpi.sourceforge.net will almost certainly
help, as other people pointed out.
Once you make your laptop work correctly from a kernel / bios
point of view, you might want to contact me in private to see
if we can get the sonypi driver to work for you.
Stelian.
--
Stelian Pop <[email protected]>
Alcove - http://www.alcove.com
On Monday 29 April 2002 02:28, Erik Mouw wrote:
> > ERROR
> > 0211: Keyboard Error
> >
> > I do have the option to use <F2> to enter Setup, but due to some strange
> > 0211 keyboard error it just won't work. The only proper way for
> > restarting my machine is to power it off and turn it on again.
> >
> > What can I do?
>
> 1) Update the BIOS, my laptop shipped with an old version and a BIOS
> update fixed some keyboard related problems. (you need to boot into
> windows for this)
Can I do this with a DOS bootdisk? I remember that most of the Flash updates
require you to startup the computer in a real DOS environment, at least those
I have seen for my ASUS P5A and A7V boards.
Windows XP didn't live long on my system - I just booted it after I bought
that thingy, then I installed Linux on the whole disk. I can live with the
reboot problem, as long as I'd have to install XP or some other Microsoft
shit on it to fix it.
> 2) Apply the latest ACPI patch.
I'll try. Is anyone interested in getting positive feedback? You?
> [...]
> My FX505 doesn't need the sonypi driver. With APM I can suspend the
> computer but the CPU fan won't turn off; with ACPI the CPU fan turns
> off, but I can't suspend the computer. Anyway, the latest ACPI patch
> makes it a lot more quiet.
That's right. With APM, I had the problem that the fan didn't turn on if it
wasn't on after a power-on. Twice, my machine went off because it overheated.
> [...]
> Use the ALSA-0.9 series driver instead of the kernel driver.
I'll try that, too.
> > So, just for completeness, here's my system configuration:
> >
> > Mobile AMD Duron Processor, 1GHz
> > 256MB RAM
> > IDE hard disk and CD/DVD ROM
>
> You forgot to tell which kernel version you are currently using.
> Anyway, linux-2.4.19-pre5 + acpi-20020329-2.4.18 works for me.
Umm, I really forgot that. I am currently using a vanilla 2.5.9 kernel and I
am quite happy with it.
Thanks,
Stephan
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 04:30:22PM +0200, Stephan Maciej wrote:
> > 1) Update the BIOS, my laptop shipped with an old version and a BIOS
> > update fixed some keyboard related problems. (you need to boot into
> > windows for this)
>
> Can I do this with a DOS bootdisk? I remember that most of the Flash updates
> require you to startup the computer in a real DOS environment, at least those
> I have seen for my ASUS P5A and A7V boards.
Unfortunatelly (at least for the C1VM windows XP bios) it
requires windows installed, so it could launch a fancy graphical
installer, which will test if your laptop is the correct version and
if it is, it will create the dos boot disk.
Of course it didn't work for me (since I have a C1VE, which is the
european version of the C1VM, and the bios wasn't "certified" for
my version). But I was able to workaround by manually looking at
the temporary files (windows\temp directory) while the fancy setup
utility was running....
Just in case it's useful...
> > 2) Apply the latest ACPI patch.
>
> I'll try. Is anyone interested in getting positive feedback? You?
Probably the acpi mailing list.
Stelian.
--
Stelian Pop <[email protected]>
Alcove - http://www.alcove.com
> From: Stelian Pop [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > 2) Apply the latest ACPI patch.
> >
> > I'll try. Is anyone interested in getting positive feedback? You?
>
> Probably the acpi mailing list.
...which is [email protected], if you were wondering.
;-)
Regards -- Andy
> Can I do this with a DOS bootdisk? I remember that most of
> the Flash updates require you to startup the computer in a real DOS
> environment, at least those I have seen for my ASUS P5A and A7V
boards.
See http://myplc.com/sony/index.htm
--
Troels Walsted Hansen
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 04:30:22PM +0200, Stephan Maciej wrote:
> On Monday 29 April 2002 02:28, Erik Mouw wrote:
> > 1) Update the BIOS, my laptop shipped with an old version and a BIOS
> > update fixed some keyboard related problems. (you need to boot into
> > windows for this)
>
> Can I do this with a DOS bootdisk? I remember that most of the Flash updates
> require you to startup the computer in a real DOS environment, at least those
> I have seen for my ASUS P5A and A7V boards.
With my Asus P5A board I could update the BIOS by downloading the FreeDOS
installation disk, ripping all install stuff from it, and putting the
flash utilities on it.
The stuff you download from Sony is a self extracting EXE file that
contains, the flash utility, the BIOS image, and a couple of batch
files to put format a system floppy and put copy the correct stuff on
it. How inconvenient. You might be able to pull the image out of the
EXE file, it might even work within DOSemu+FreeDOS or within Wine. I
didn't try it.
> Windows XP didn't live long on my system - I just booted it after I bought
> that thingy, then I installed Linux on the whole disk. I can live with the
> reboot problem, as long as I'd have to install XP or some other Microsoft
> shit on it to fix it.
BIOS updates was one of the reasons I let the XP partition exist.
Another one was the Lattice CPLD design tools.
> > 2) Apply the latest ACPI patch.
>
> I'll try. Is anyone interested in getting positive feedback? You?
I'd think the ACPI people are always interested in feedback, be it
positive or negative.
> > [...]
> > My FX505 doesn't need the sonypi driver. With APM I can suspend the
> > computer but the CPU fan won't turn off; with ACPI the CPU fan turns
> > off, but I can't suspend the computer. Anyway, the latest ACPI patch
> > makes it a lot more quiet.
>
> That's right. With APM, I had the problem that the fan didn't turn on if it
> wasn't on after a power-on. Twice, my machine went off because it overheated.
That's also fixed with the BIOS upgrade: it always turns the fan on in
APM mode.
> > [...]
> > Use the ALSA-0.9 series driver instead of the kernel driver.
>
> I'll try that, too.
If you have 2.5.9, you already have ALSA. You might want to compile it
as modules, in my experience ALSA sometimes fails to initialise the
sound device, but works when loaded the second time.
> > > So, just for completeness, here's my system configuration:
> > >
> > > Mobile AMD Duron Processor, 1GHz
> > > 256MB RAM
> > > IDE hard disk and CD/DVD ROM
> >
> > You forgot to tell which kernel version you are currently using.
> > Anyway, linux-2.4.19-pre5 + acpi-20020329-2.4.18 works for me.
>
> Umm, I really forgot that. I am currently using a vanilla 2.5.9 kernel and I
> am quite happy with it.
Ehm, you really don't want to be using 2.5.9 if you care about your
data. I see too many IDE problems coming by on linux-kernel that I
currently don't trust IDE support at all. Better stay with 2.4.18+acpi
or 2.4.19-pre*+acpi and ALSA.
Erik
--
J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Faculty
of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology,
PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635
Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: [email protected]
WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/