[Try this again, except this time I'll force the attachment as inline text!] Hi, I have managed to boot 2.6.24.1 on this machine, with the NMI watchdog enabled, by using the "acpi=noirq" option. (There does seem to be some unhappiness with bridge symlinks in sysfs, though.) Cheers, Chris Linux version 2.6.24.1 (chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Feb 8 22:41:10 GMT 2008 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ffeb000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000001ffeb000 - 000000001ffef000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000001ffef000 - 000000001ffff000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 000000001ffff000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 511MB LOWMEM available. Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 131051) 0 entries of 256 used Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0 -> 4096 Normal 4096 -> 131051 Movable zone start PFN for each node early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 0: 0 -> 131051 On node 0 totalpages: 131051 DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 0 pages reserved DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0 Normal zone: 991 pages used for memmap Normal zone: 125964 pages, LIFO batch:31 Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap DMI 2.3 present. ACPI: RSDP 000F7B40, 0014 (r0 ASUS ) ACPI: RSDT 1FFEB000, 0030 (r1 ASUS TUSL2-C 30303031 MSFT 31313031) ACPI: FACP 1FFEB100, 0074 (r1 ASUS TUSL2-C 30303031 MSFT 31313031) ACPI: DSDT 1FFEB180, 39FA (r1 ASUS TUSL2-C 1000 MSFT 100000B) ACPI: FACS 1FFFF000, 0040 ACPI: BOOT 1FFEB040, 0028 (r1 ASUS TUSL2-C 30303031 MSFT 31313031) ACPI: APIC 1FFEB080, 005A (r1 ASUS TUSL2-C 30303031 MSFT 31313031) ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xe408 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 6:8 APIC version 17 ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 20000000:dec00000) Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 130028 Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ nmi_watchdog=1 video=matroxfb:vesa:0x11A console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0 acpi=noirq Found and enabled local APIC! mapped APIC to ffffb000 (fee00000) Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c035f000 soft=c035b000 PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes) Detected 1005.045 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 console [tty0] enabled console [ttyS0] enabled Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Memory: 513484k/524204k available (1577k kernel code, 10128k reserved, 607k data, 196k init, 0k highmem) virtual kernel memory layout: fixmap : 0xfffb5000 - 0xfffff000 ( 296 kB) vmalloc : 0xe0800000 - 0xfffb3000 ( 503 MB) lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xdffeb000 ( 511 MB) .init : 0xc0327000 - 0xc0358000 ( 196 kB) .data : 0xc028a7ca - 0xc03227c4 ( 607 kB) .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc028a7ca (1577 kB) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. SLUB: Genslabs=11, HWalign=32, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 2011.90 BogoMIPS (lpj=4023814) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 256K CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000040 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 9k freed ACPI: Core revision 20070126 CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06 Leaving ESR disabled. Total of 1 processors activated (2011.90 BogoMIPS). Brought up 1 CPUs net_namespace: 64 bytes NET: Registered protocol family 16 ACPI: bus type pci registered PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0e30, last bus=3 PCI: Using configuration type 1 Setting up standard PCI resources ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S5) ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) PCI quirk: region e400-e47f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO PCI quirk: region ec00-ec3f claimed by ICH4 GPIO PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI2._PRT] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI init ACPI: bus type pnp registered pnp: PnP ACPI: found 15 devices ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered PCI: Probing PCI hardware sysfs: duplicate filename 'bridge' can not be created WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:424 sysfs_add_one() Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24.1 #1 [<c0105020>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f [<c0105990>] show_trace+0x12/0x14 [<c010613d>] dump_stack+0x6c/0x72 [<c01991bf>] sysfs_add_one+0x57/0xbc [<c0199e41>] sysfs_create_link+0xc2/0x10d [<c01bae9a>] pci_bus_add_devices+0xbd/0x103 [<c034016c>] pci_legacy_init+0x56/0xe3 [<c03274e1>] kernel_init+0x157/0x2c3 [<c0104c83>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 ======================= pci 0000:00:01.0: Error creating sysfs bridge symlink, continuing... sysfs: duplicate filename 'bridge' can not be created WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:424 sysfs_add_one() Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24.1 #1 [<c0105020>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f [<c0105990>] show_trace+0x12/0x14 [<c010613d>] dump_stack+0x6c/0x72 [<c01991bf>] sysfs_add_one+0x57/0xbc [<c0199e41>] sysfs_create_link+0xc2/0x10d [<c01bae9a>] pci_bus_add_devices+0xbd/0x103 [<c01bae82>] pci_bus_add_devices+0xa5/0x103 [<c034016c>] pci_legacy_init+0x56/0xe3 [<c03274e1>] kernel_init+0x157/0x2c3 [<c0104c83>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 ======================= pci 0000:02:0d.0: Error creating sysfs bridge symlink, continuing... sysfs: duplicate filename 'bridge' can not be created WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:424 sysfs_add_one() Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24.1 #1 [<c0105020>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f [<c0105990>] show_trace+0x12/0x14 [<c010613d>] dump_stack+0x6c/0x72 [<c01991bf>] sysfs_add_one+0x57/0xbc [<c0199e41>] sysfs_create_link+0xc2/0x10d [<c01bae9a>] pci_bus_add_devices+0xbd/0x103 [<c034016c>] pci_legacy_init+0x56/0xe3 [<c03274e1>] kernel_init+0x157/0x2c3 [<c0104c83>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 ======================= pci 0000:00:1e.0: Error creating sysfs bridge symlink, continuing... PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/2440] at 0000:00:1f.0 Time: tsc clocksource has been installed. system 00:00: iomem range 0x0-0x9ffff could not be reserved system 00:00: iomem range 0xf0000-0xfffff could not be reserved system 00:00: iomem range 0x100000-0x1fffffff could not be reserved system 00:03: ioport range 0x3f0-0x3f1 has been reserved system 00:03: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved system 00:04: ioport range 0xe400-0xe47f has been reserved system 00:04: ioport range 0xec00-0xec3f has been reserved PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: f8800000-f9cfffff PREFETCH window: f9f00000-fbffffff PCI: Bridge: 0000:02:0d.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: f6000000-f7ffffff PREFETCH window: f9d00000-f9dfffff PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0 IO window: b000-dfff MEM window: f5800000-f87fffff PREFETCH window: f9d00000-f9efffff PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 196608 bytes) TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) TCP reno registered checking if image is initramfs... it is Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0 Freeing initrd memory: 2972k freed Simple Boot Flag at 0x3a set to 0x1 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 254) io scheduler noop registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered (default) Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0 PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:01:00.0 matroxfb: Matrox Millennium G400 MAX (AGP) detected PInS memtype = 0 matroxfb: MTRR's turned on matroxfb: 1280x1024x16bpp (virtual: 1280x6553) matroxfb: framebuffer at 0xFA000000, mapped to 0xe0880000, size 33554432 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x64 fb0: MATROX frame buffer device matroxfb_crtc2: secondary head of fb0 was registered as fb1 Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac intel_rng: FWH not detected Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A 00:0b: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A 00:0c: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice device-mapper: ioctl: 4.12.0-ioctl (2007-10-02) initialised: dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx EDAC MC: Ver: 2.1.0 Feb 8 2008 TCP cubic registered NET: Registered protocol family 1 Testing NMI watchdog ... <6>input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0 OK. Using IPI No-Shortcut mode Freeing unused kernel memory: 196k freed usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs usbcore: registered new interface driver hub usbcore: registered new device driver usb ehci_hcd 0000:03:0d.2: EHCI Host Controller ehci_hcd 0000:03:0d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 ehci_hcd 0000:03:0d.2: irq 9, io mem 0xf6000000 ehci_hcd 0000:03:0d.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 0.95, driver 10 Dec 2004 usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 5 ports detected ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver ohci_hcd 0000:03:0d.0: OHCI Host Controller ohci_hcd 0000:03:0d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 ohci_hcd 0000:03:0d.0: irq 9, io mem 0xf7000000 usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 usb 1-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 1-5:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-5:1.0: 4 ports detected usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 3 ports detected ohci_hcd 0000:03:0d.1: OHCI Host Controller ohci_hcd 0000:03:0d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 ohci_hcd 0000:03:0d.1: irq 9, io mem 0xf6800000 usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0 PCI: setting IRQ 9 as level-triggered PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:1f.2 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: irq 9, io base 0x0000a400 usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:1f.4 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.4 to 64 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: irq 9, io base 0x0000a000 usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected SCSI subsystem initialized Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods libata version 3.00 loaded. ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.12 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.1 to 64 scsi0 : ata_piix scsi1 : ata_piix ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xa800 irq 14 ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xa808 irq 15 ata1.00: ATA-4: ST320420A, 3.12, max UDMA/66 ata1.00: 39851760 sectors, multi 16: LBA ata1.00: configured for UDMA/66 ata2.00: ATAPI: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-116 0122, E1.22, max UDMA/66 ata2.01: ATAPI: SONY CD-RW CRX145E, 1.0b, max UDMA/33 ata2.00: configured for UDMA/66 ata2.01: configured for UDMA/33 scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST320420A 3.12 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 39851760 512-byte hardware sectors (20404 MB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 39851760 512-byte hardware sectors (20404 MB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 > sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-116 1.22 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 scsi 1:0:1:0: CD-ROM SONY CD-RW CRX145E 1.0b PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 scsi 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5 scsi 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5 Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray sr 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 Linux agpgart interface v0.102 ACPI: Invalid PBLK length [5] agpgart: Detected an Intel i815 Chipset. agpgart: AGP aperture is 32M @ 0xfc000000 input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input1 ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input2 ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.02 (26-Jul-2007) iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH2 TCO device (Version=1, TCOBASE=0xe460) iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0) gameport: EMU10K1 is pci0000:02:0a.1/gameport0, io 0xd400, speed 1147kHz 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28 PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:02:0c.0 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe292e000, 00:30:4f:10:da:38, IRQ 9 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:02:0e.0 firewire_ohci: Added fw-ohci device 0000:02:0e.0, OHCI version 1.0 input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input3 firewire_ohci: Added fw-ohci device 0000:03:0c.0, OHCI version 1.0 firewire_ohci: swap not done yet PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:1f.3 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 firewire_core: created new fw device fw0 (0 config rom retries, S400) input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input4 parport_pc 00:0a: reported by Plug and Play ACPI parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,EPP,ECP,DMA] firewire_core: created new fw device fw1 (0 config rom retries, S400) firewire_ohci: swap not done yet PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:02:0a.0 usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio EXT3 FS on sda3, internal journal kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on dm-1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14a <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> warning: process `kudzu' used the deprecated sysctl system call with 1.23. NET: Registered protocol family 10 lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions NET: Registered protocol family 17 eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 RPC: Registered udp transport module. RPC: Registered tcp transport module. Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@xxxxxxxxxxxx). NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory NFSD: starting 90-second grace period [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [drm] Initialized mga 3.2.1 20051102 on minor 0 agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode [drm] Initialized card for AGP DMA. ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ - 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