Re: Linux 2.4.20 ACPI

Tom Diehl (tdiehl@rogueind.com)
Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:53:13 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, David Woodhouse wrote:

>
> pavel@suse.cz said:
> > I have omnibook xe3, will boot without ACPI but USB will not work due
> > to interrupt routing problems. It has buggy PIR$ table, acpi tables
> > are okay. Of course it is HP bug.
>
> BIOS authors are universally shite. Film at 11.
>
> If it didn't have working ACPI tables either, what would we do? Probably fix
> it with a DMI table entry. This box probably doesn't actually require ACPI
> to boot.

Is this the same problem that Intel L440GX Motherboards have. In order to get
it to boot I need to compile a custom kernel with acpi enabled. I am told it
is some kind of irq routing problem and only Intel can fix it with a BIOS update
which they do seem interested in addressing. :-( Sure would be nice to be able
to boot stock Red Hat kernels on this machine.

-- 
.............Tom	"Nothing would please me more than being able to 
tdiehl@rogueind.com	hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market 
			with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976

We are still waiting ....

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