Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752466AbWKBBuU (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 20:50:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752467AbWKBBuU (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 20:50:20 -0500 Received: from smtpout06-01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net ([64.202.165.224]:678 "HELO smtpout06-04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752466AbWKBBuT (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Nov 2006 20:50:19 -0500 Message-ID: <45494ED9.6010402@seclark.us> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:50:17 -0500 From: Stephen Clark Reply-To: Stephen.Clark@seclark.us User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22smp i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010110 Netscape6/6.5 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen.Clark@seclark.us CC: Dave Jones , Alexey Dobriyan , linux-kernel Subject: Re: fc6 kernel 2.6.18-1.2798 breaks acpi on HP laptop n5430 References: <4548DDF4.2030903@seclark.us> <20061101201218.GA4899@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> <45490EFE.1060608@seclark.us> <20061101235546.GB10577@redhat.com> <4549450F.3080207@seclark.us> In-Reply-To: <4549450F.3080207@seclark.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2463 Lines: 87 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 -- "They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Ben Franklin) "The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases." (Thomas Jefferson) - 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/