Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:36:14 +0200 | From | Robert Vollmert <> | Subject | Re: Local APIC with ACPI freezes ASUS M2400N (update) |
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Hello,
> when Local APIC is enabled, my ASUS M2400N notebook (Centrino / ICH4-M > chipset) freezes when ACPI initialises or tries to switch the display > device. When Local APIC is not enabled, this does not occur. This > happens both with 2.4.22 with ACPI patch from 20030916 and with > unpatched (apart from a patch to load the DSDT via initrd) > 2.6.0-test5.
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> The freeze occurs when the DSDT writes to SystemIO address 0xb2. It > does this both to query information about the active display device > and to change the device.
a little more information on this issue: The XFree86 driver for the chipset (i855GM) has some code for switching and querying active displays that talks to the video BIOS via "int 10h".
Adapting this to LRMI (http://sourceforge.net/projects/lrmi), it is possible to query and set the active display devices. This works without freezing the computer even when "Local APIC" is enabled.
Is it likely or at least possible that the BIOS talks to the video BIOS when the DSDT writes to 0xB2? If so, is that something it shouldn't be doing, or should this not cause any problems?
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