ACPI errors (2.4.21-pre3-ac4)

This existed with the earlier kernels as well, on boot up I get the following when I enable ACPI:

early in the dmesg output:

found SMP MP-table at 000ff780
hm, page 000ff000 reserved twice.
hm, page 00100000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000fd000 reserved twice.
hm, page 000fe000 reserved twice.
On node 0 totalpages: 63296
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 59200 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: Product ID: BrkdleG-ICH4 APIC at: 0xFEE00000 Processor #0 Pentium 4(tm) XEON(tm) APIC version 20
I/O APIC #1 Version 32 at 0xFEC00000.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Processors: 1
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hda3 console=tty0 console=ttyS0 Initializing CPU#0

and then a little further down:

ACPI-0202: *** Warning: Invalid table signature ASF! found
ACPI-0095: *** Error: Acpi_load_tables: Error getting required tables (DSDT/FADT/FACS): AE_BAD_SIGNATURE
ACPI-0116: *** Error: Acpi_load_tables: Could not load tables: AE_BAD_SIGNATURE
ACPI: System description table load failed

Processor is a P-4 2Ghz

/proc/cpuinfo:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
stepping : 4
cpu MHz : 1999.823
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
bogomips : 3984.58

The motherboard is an Intel model D845GBV

Jeff

AFAICT, ACPI in vanilla and ac series is too old. Try a patch upgrade from sf.net/projects/acpi/

The problem you reported is well known and was fixed a long time ago.

Cheers,

Ducrot Bruno
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