RE: Linux 2.6-pre1 Does not boot on ASUS L3800C: lock up in acpi while "Executing all Devices _STA and_INIT methods"

RE: Linux 2.6-pre1 Does not boot on ASUS L3800C: lock up in acpi while "Executing all Devices _STA and_INIT methods"

[Grover, Andrew]

> From: Eric Valette [mailto:eric.valette@free.fr] 
> I happily run 2.4.21-pre5 with ACPI enabled and everything works just 
> fine. I tried today 2.6-pre1 with exactly the same hardware 
> configuration as the 2.4 one and the laptop does not boot. It hangs 
> while dispaying : "Executing all Devices _STA and_INIT methods" 
> allthough it has already printed several '.'

That's weird. They should have the same version of the ACPI code...

-- Andy

Re: Linux 2.6-pre1 Does not boot on ASUS L3800C: lock up in acpi while "Executing all Devices _STA and_INIT methods"

[Eric Valette]

Grover, Andrew wrote:
>>From: Eric Valette [mailto:eric.valette@free.fr] 
>>I happily run 2.4.21-pre5 with ACPI enabled and everything works just 
>>fine. I tried today 2.6-pre1 with exactly the same hardware 
>>configuration as the 2.4 one and the laptop does not boot. It hangs 
>>while dispaying : "Executing all Devices _STA and_INIT methods" 
>>allthough it has already printed several '.'
> 
> 
> That's weird. They should have the same version of the ACPI code...


Just to try to help, as suggested by Karol Kasimor, disabling the APIC 
make the code pass this section. The APIC is now really unconditionnaly 
enabled (regardless of BIOS settings) due to this change in 2.5.74...

<http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2003/Jun/5840.html>

So this is an interaction between APIC and ACPI... I still think it 
should not crash at least...

BTW : I still cannot boot as the radeon framebuffer driver make things 
unreable. I will stcik with 2.4 for a while...

-- eric

Re: Linux 2.6-pre1 Does not boot on ASUS L3800C: lock up in acpi while "Executing all Devices _STA and_INIT methods"

[Karol Kozimor]

Thus wrote Eric Valette:
> BTW : I still cannot boot as the radeon framebuffer driver make things 
> unreable. I will stcik with 2.4 for a while...

Boot the framebuffer into 1024x768@60 mode, every other I tried simply
doesn't work.
Best regards,

-- 
Karol 'sziwan' Kozimor
sziwan@hell.org.pl

[PATCH] Linux 2.6-pre-mm2 Fix crash on boot on ASUS L3800C if enabing APIC => add this machine to DMI black list

[Eric Valette]

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The following patch integrated in 2.5.74,

<http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2003/Jun/5840.html>

really enables the APIC even if BIOS disabled it. Unfortunately, 
enabling APIC really does not seem to work on this ASUS laptop and ACPI 
(which is mandatory) crash the kernel in ACPI code at boot time while 
"Executing all Devices _STA and_INIT methods"

Unless someones find a bug in ACPI code related to APIC management, It 
is safer to add this machine in the DMI black list (along with DELL, 
IBM, ...).

So, as suggested by the author of the problematic change, I added and 
entry in the DMI black list. But my guess is that most laptop will soon 
be present in this list....

-- eric

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--- linux-2.6.0-test1/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c.orig	2003-07-20 17:09:10.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.0-test1/arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c	2003-07-20 21:25:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -706,6 +706,12 @@
 			NO_MATCH, NO_MATCH
 			} },
 
+	{ local_apic_kills_bios, "ASUS L3C", {
+			MATCH(DMI_BOARD_VENDOR, "ASUSTeK Computer INC."),
+			MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "P4_L3C"),
+			NO_MATCH, NO_MATCH
+			} },
+
 	/* Problem Intel 440GX bioses */
 
 	{ broken_pirq, "SABR1 Bios", {			/* Bad $PIR */

Re: Linux 2.6-pre1 Does not boot on ASUS L3800C: lock up in acpi while "Executing all Devices _STA and_INIT methods"

[Tugrul Galatali]

On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 09:24, Eric Valette wrote:
> I happily run 2.4.21-pre5 with ACPI enabled and everything works just 
> fine. I tried today 2.6-pre1 with exactly the same hardware 
> configuration as the 2.4 one and the laptop does not boot. It hangs 
> while dispaying : "Executing all Devices _STA and_INIT methods" 
> allthough it has already printed several '.'

	I get that error plus the message I've been getting from >2.5.69
kernels when booting with ACPI on my Compaq W8000. dmesg/lspci/configs
at 

	http://acm.cs.nyu.edu/~tugrul/acpi/

	The 2.6.0-test1 error is pretty big for hand transcription, but I'll
try setting up serial console if requested.

	Tugrul Galatali

Linux 2.6-pre1 Does not boot on ASUS L3800C: lock up in acpi while "Executing all Devices _STA and_INIT methods"

[Eric Valette]

I happily run 2.4.21-pre5 with ACPI enabled and everything works just 
fine. I tried today 2.6-pre1 with exactly the same hardware 
configuration as the 2.4 one and the laptop does not boot. It hangs 
while dispaying : "Executing all Devices _STA and_INIT methods" 
allthough it has already printed several '.'



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