Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:45:02 +0100 | From | "Alex Riesen" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Work around asus_acpi driver oopses on Samsung P30s and the like due to the ACPI implicit return |
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On 2/20/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote: > Alex Riesen <fork0@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > > FWIW, I need the patch below to stop ACPI freezing at boot on Asus S1300N. > > There is a BIOS update from Asus, but no mention of any fixes in ACPI, > > so as I have no means to backup the BIOS in case something goes wrong > > I didn't do the update. > > I think it'd be worth trying the update anyway please. Normally those > updating programs are pretty careful to not give you a dead box.
You think? ... Still, it'll have to wait till the next weekend. I really cannot afford a "dead box" midweek.
> > I found out (by putting printks in the initialization code) that a > > call to INI (whatever it is) of VGA_ (whatever this is) immediately > > freezes the notebook and the fan goes on shortly afterwards. > > > > Is this a recent problem, or did earlier 2.6.x kernels also fail?
Yes. I think I got the notebook around 2.6.9, and it already had the problem. I don't remember what I did back than, probably run it with ACPI disabled, or maybe I made that workaround immediately (there were some sound problems without ACPI, I recall). - 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/
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