On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Gabriel C wrote: > Frank Hale wrote: > [ added linux-acpi to CC ] > > I have an Averatec 2370 laptop with the nVidia MCP51. With kernel > > 2.6.20 I had no issues with ACPI however with 2.6.21 and higher the > > kernel will hang on boot until I press the suspend button or the power > > button in which case the kernel wakes up and finishes the boot > > process. Including the following support only causes the issue: > > > > [*] ACPI Support > > > > What I mean by that is every ACPI option has been deactivated and only > > ACPI support checked. The boot process with 2.6.21 and higher hangs at > > the point where the Scheduler is being registered. > > > > io scheduler cfq registered (default) > > > > If I allow it to sit there it never comes back to life and finishes > > booting. If I press the power or suspend button it will finish booting > > as expected. > > > > I've scoured google for quite a while but cannot find any relevant > > information pertaining to this issue. For now I've disabled ACPI > > altogether. Frank, thanks for the tip about 2.6.20 being good, it gave me a nice place to start bisecting from. Thomas, Ingo, Regarding the issue described above that Frank and I are having, I've narrowed it down to commit e9e2cdb4[1]: [PATCH] clockevents: i386 drivers About our systems: Averatec 2370/2371 Laptop AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-50/TL-52 nVidia MCP51 chipset Here a small matrix of my tests: 2.6.20.15 SMP : OK 2.6.21.5 SMP : hang 2.6.21.5 UP w/o APIC : OK 2.6.22.1 UP : hang 2.6.22.1 UP w/o IO-APIC : hang 2.6.22.1 UP w/o APIC : OK 2.6.22.1 SMP : hang 2.6.22.1 SMP w/o ACPI : OK Please let me know if there's anything else I can provide to help. thanks! -- Cal Peake [1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e9e2cdb412412326c4827fc78ba27f410d837e6e - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html