ACPI issue
Hello,
I have just bought Compaq 572US laptop with AMD X64 dual core on board. I installed Debian Etch on it. After first reboot I experienced many problems with system freeze at many random moments. I had no idea what to do, as a blind shot I disabled acpi in boot parameters (acpi=off). Those problems disappeared and my system works for an hour fine (previously it was a question of minutes).
I have read article about ACPI myths and found this e-mail address there. What steps would you suggest next in order to improve my system situation with ACPI?
Regards,
Robert
Len Brown
reviewerQuoted 10 lines · Robert Gomulka
Hello,
I have just bought Compaq 572US laptop with AMD X64 dual core on board. I installed Debian Etch on it. After first reboot I experienced many problems with system freeze at many random moments. I had no idea what to do, as a blind shot I disabled acpi in boot parameters (acpi=off). Those problems disappeared and my system works for an hour fine (previously it was a question of minutes).
I have read article about ACPI myths and found this e-mail address there. What steps would you suggest next in order to improve my system situation with ACPI?
Start by upgrading to a 2.6.22.stable kernel.
If you still have problems with ACPI mode, then open a bug report here:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=ACPI
and attach the output from dmesg -s64000 from the default and acpi=off boots. check that the driver to IRQ mapping in /proc/interrupts is the same in both cases.
Look if there is a temperature reported under /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature and see if perhaps your system is getting hot when it fails. Make a note if you can hear the fans turn on/off, and at what temperature.
provide the output from acpidump in the bug report.
thanks,
-Len