Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265421AbTFWWP5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2003 18:15:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265423AbTFWWNt (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2003 18:13:49 -0400 Received: from fmr02.intel.com ([192.55.52.25]:3320 "EHLO caduceus.fm.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265172AbTFWWLv convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2003 18:11:51 -0400 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6375.0 Subject: RE: [ACPI] MS-6368L ACPI IRQ problem still in 2.4.21 Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 15:23:48 -0700 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [ACPI] MS-6368L ACPI IRQ problem still in 2.4.21 Thread-Index: AcM51VX5XsnK7d51QDyJBRZqnQWj1wAAF5GA From: "Grover, Andrew" To: "Marek Michalkiewicz" , Cc: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Jun 2003 22:23:48.0365 (UTC) FILETIME=[1DE223D0:01C339D6] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1682 Lines: 36 > From: Marek Michalkiewicz [mailto:marekm@amelek.gda.pl] > long time ago I noticed a problem with the ACPI IRQ not working > if it is _not_ shared with some other PCI IRQ. The problem still > exists in the 2.4.21 kernel, confirmed on two machines with the > MSI MS-6368L motherboard (VIA PLE133 chipset). > > I need ACPI for just one thing: to run "shutdown -h now" after the > power button is pressed. (The box is a server which usually has > no keyboard connected.) > > As I can see in /proc/interrupts, the BIOS usually allocates IRQ9 > for ACPI (not shared with anything else), and the IRQ9 counter is > always zero. Pressing the power button has no effect at all. > > There is an easy workaround: in BIOS setup, set IRQ9 to "Legacy ISA" > instead of "PCI/ISA PnP" so that ACPI gets some other IRQ, shared > with some other PCI devices (in my case, IRQ11 is shared by: acpi, > usb-uhci, usb-uhci, eth0). Then the power button works fine. > > Is this a known problem? Should I complain to MSI (BIOS fix), > or is this a Linux bug? Any patches I should try? This looks > a bit unusual to me - one would expect problems if an IRQ _is_ > shared, and some broken hardware/driver doesn't like sharing... > > If there is no known fix, perhaps the "Legacy ISA" workaround > (which I discovered by accident) should be documented somewhere? Is this an SMP machine? What do the INT_SRC_OVR lines in the dmesg say? Thanks -- Andy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/