I saw in my dmesg output recently, a request to send the output of dmidecode to this address. Please find it attached. This laptop is an HP dv6000z, with an AMD Turion64 dual core processor (I believe you can tell this from the dmesg output also). I've had this laptop for over 1 year now, and I still cannot get it to work reliably (it often has difficulty booting without the noapic option, and it often fails to set the hwclock. I also often get some error message about IRQ7 triggering, "but nobody cared"). I am hoping that whatever information dmidecode provides you with will lead to a solution to my problem. Attached are two files: the output of dmidecode and the first 200 lines of dmesg.
Linux version 2.6.22-3-amd64 (Debian 2.6.22-6) (maks@xxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.1.3 20071019 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-17)) #1 SMP Sun Nov 4 18:18:09 UTC 2007 Command line: root=/dev/sda5 ro BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009dc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009dc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000d2000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003ff00000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000003ff00000 - 000000003ff15000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000003ff15000 - 000000003ff80000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000003ff80000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 157) 0 entries of 3200 used Entering add_active_range(0, 256, 261888) 1 entries of 3200 used end_pfn_map = 1048576 DMI present. ACPI: RSDP 000F88F0, 0014 (r0 HP ) ACPI: RSDT 3FF0BB68, 0040 (r1 HPQOEM SLIC-MPC 6040000 LTP 0) ACPI: FACP 3FF14B58, 0074 (r1 HP MCP51M 6040000 PTL_ F4240) ACPI: DSDT 3FF0BBA8, 8FB0 (r1 HP MCP51M 6040000 MSFT 3000000) ACPI: FACS 3FF15FC0, 0040 ACPI: SSDT 3FF14BCC, 01C4 (r1 PTLTD POWERNOW 6040000 LTP 1) ACPI: MCFG 3FF14D90, 003C (r1 HP MCFG 6040000 LTP 0) ACPI: HPET 3FF14DCC, 0038 (r1 PTLTD HPETTBL 6040000 LTP 1) ACPI: APIC 3FF14E04, 005E (r1 HP APIC 6040000 LTP 0) ACPI: BOOT 3FF14E62, 0028 (r1 HP $SBFTBL$ 6040000 LTP 1) ACPI: SLIC 3FF14E8A, 0176 (r1 HPQOEM SLIC-MPC 6040000 LTP 1) Scanning NUMA topology in Northbridge 24 No NUMA configuration found Faking a node at 0000000000000000-000000003ff00000 Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 157) 0 entries of 3200 used Entering add_active_range(0, 256, 261888) 1 entries of 3200 used Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-000000003ff00000 Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0 -> 4096 DMA32 4096 -> 1048576 Normal 1048576 -> 1048576 early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges 0: 0 -> 157 0: 256 -> 261888 On node 0 totalpages: 261789 DMA zone: 56 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 1020 pages reserved DMA zone: 2921 pages, LIFO batch:0 DMA32 zone: 3524 pages used for memmap DMA32 zone: 254268 pages, LIFO batch:31 Normal zone: 0 pages used for memmap ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 (Bootup-CPU) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled) Processor #1 ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl) ACPI: IRQ0 used by override. ACPI: IRQ2 used by override. ACPI: IRQ9 used by override. Setting APIC routing to flat ACPI: HPET id: 0x10de8201 base: 0xfed00000 Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009d000 - 000000000009e000 swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009e000 - 00000000000a0000 swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000d2000 swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000d2000 - 0000000000100000 Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:a0000000) SMP: Allowing 2 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs PERCPU: Allocating 37896 bytes of per cpu data Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 257189 Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda5 ro Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes) Marking TSC unstable due to TSCs unsynchronized time.c: Detected 1808.229 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Checking aperture... CPU 0: aperture @ db8000000 size 32 MB Aperture too small (32 MB) No AGP bridge found Memory: 1022220k/1047552k available (2008k kernel code, 24936k reserved, 945k data, 296k init) Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3619.52 BogoMIPS (lpj=7239044) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Disabled at boot. Capability LSM initialized Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line) CPU 0/0 -> Node 0 CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 CPU: Processor Core ID: 0 SMP alternatives: switching to UP code ACPI: Core revision 20070126 Using local APIC timer interrupts. result 12557099 Detected 12.557 MHz APIC timer. SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code Booting processor 1/2 APIC 0x1 Initializing CPU#1 Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3616.43 BogoMIPS (lpj=7232876) CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line) CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line) CPU 1/1 -> Node 0 CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 CPU: Processor Core ID: 1 AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-56 stepping 02 Brought up 2 CPUs migration_cost=349 NET: Registered protocol family 16 ACPI: bus type pci registered PCI: Using MMCONFIG at e0000000 - e06fffff PCI: No mmconfig possible on device 00:18 PCI: No mmconfig possible on device 07:05 ACPI: System BIOS is requesting _OSI(Linux) ACPI: Please test with "acpi_osi=!Linux" Please send dmidecode to linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5) ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:10.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P2P0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.XVR0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.XVR1._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.XVR2._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 5) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] (IRQs 7) *11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] (IRQs 10) *11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] (IRQs 11) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK1E] (IRQs 16) *11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK2E] (IRQs 17) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK3E] (IRQs 18) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LK4E] (IRQs 19) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSMB] (IRQs *10) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LPMU] (IRQs 11) *10 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUS0] (IRQs 22) *11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LUS2] (IRQs 22) *7 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMAC] (IRQs 20) *10 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LAZA] (IRQs 21) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LACI] (IRQs 21) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LMCI] (IRQs 21) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LPID] (IRQs 21) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LTID] (IRQs 23) *5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LSI1] (IRQs 20) *10 Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI init ACPI: bus type pnp registered pnp: ACPI device : hid PNP0C02 pnp: ACPI device : hid PNP0C01 pnp: ACPI device : hid PNP0A03 pnp: ACPI device : hid PNP0C02 pnp: ACPI device : hid PNP0C02 pnp: ACPI device : hid PNP0C02 pnp: ACPI device : hid PNP0200 pnp: ACPI device : hid PNP0800 pnp: ACPI device : hid PNP0C04 pnp: ACPI device : hid PNP0B00 pnp: ACPI device : hid PNP0103 pnp: ACPI device : hid PNP0303 pnp: ACPI device : hid SYN0129 pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs usbcore: registered new interface driver hub usbcore: registered new device driver usb PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report NET: Registered protocol family 8 NET: Registered protocol family 20 hpet0: at MMIO 0xfed00000, IRQs 2, 8, 31 hpet0: 3 32-bit timers, 25000000 Hz ACPI: RTC can wake from S4 pnp: the driver 'system' has been registered pnp: match found with the PnP device '00:00' and the driver 'system' pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0xe0000000-0xefffffff could not be reserved Time: hpet clocksource has been installed. pnp: match found with the PnP device '00:01' and the driver 'system' pnp: 00:01: iomem range 0xffc00000-0xffffffff could not be reserved pnp: 00:01: iomem range 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff could not be reserved pnp: 00:01: iomem range 0xfee00000-0xfeefffff could not be reserved pnp: 00:01: iomem range 0xfed00000-0xfed00fff has been reserved pnp: match found with the PnP device '00:03' and the driver 'system' pnp: 00:03: iomem range 0xe0000000-0xefffffff could not be reserved pnp: match found with the PnP device '00:04' and the driver 'system' pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0x1000-0x107f has been reserved pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0x1080-0x10ff has been reserved pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0x1400-0x147f has been reserved pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0x1480-0x14ff has been reserved pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0x1800-0x187f has been reserved pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0x1880-0x18ff has been reserved pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0x2000-0x203f has been reserved pnp: match found with the PnP device '00:05' and the driver 'system'
# dmidecode 2.9 SMBIOS 2.4 present. 20 structures occupying 822 bytes. Table at 0x000F1C80. Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes BIOS Information Vendor: Hewlett-Packard Version: F.3A Release Date: 07/19/2007 Address: 0xE6A30 Runtime Size: 103888 bytes ROM Size: 1024 kB Characteristics: ISA is supported PCI is supported PNP is supported BIOS is upgradeable BIOS shadowing is allowed ESCD support is available Boot from CD is supported Selectable boot is supported Print screen service is supported (int 5h) 8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h) Serial services are supported (int 14h) Printer services are supported (int 17h) ACPI is supported USB legacy is supported AGP is supported Smart battery is supported BIOS boot specification is supported Targeted content distribution is supported Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes System Information Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard Product Name: HP Pavilion dv6000 (EX991AV#ABA) Version: Rev 1 Serial Number: CNF7044XGT UUID: 434E4637-3034-3458-4754-001636E6C962 Wake-up Type: Power Switch SKU Number: EX991AV#ABA Family: 103C_5335KV Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 8 bytes Base Board Information Manufacturer: Quanta Product Name: 30B8 Version: 65.28 Serial Number: None Handle 0x0003, DMI type 3, 17 bytes Chassis Information Manufacturer: Quanta Type: Notebook Lock: Not Present Version: N/A Serial Number: None Asset Tag: Boot-up State: Safe Power Supply State: Safe Thermal State: Safe Security Status: Unknown OEM Information: 0x00000000 Handle 0x0004, DMI type 4, 35 bytes Processor Information Socket Designation: Socket S1 Type: Central Processor Family: Opteron Manufacturer: AMD ID: 82 0F 04 00 FF FB 8B 17 Signature: Family 15, Model 72, Stepping 2 Flags: FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip) VME (Virtual mode extension) DE (Debugging extension) PSE (Page size extension) TSC (Time stamp counter) MSR (Model specific registers) PAE (Physical address extension) MCE (Machine check exception) CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported) APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported) SEP (Fast system call) MTRR (Memory type range registers) PGE (Page global enable) MCA (Machine check architecture) CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported) PAT (Page attribute table) PSE-36 (36-bit page size extension) CLFSH (CLFLUSH instruction supported) MMX (MMX technology supported) FXSR (Fast floating-point save and restore) SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions) SSE2 (Streaming SIMD extensions 2) HTT (Hyper-threading technology) Version: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile TL56 Voltage: 1.6 V External Clock: 200 MHz Max Speed: 1800 MHz Current Speed: 1800 MHz Status: Populated, Enabled Upgrade: None L1 Cache Handle: 0x0005 L2 Cache Handle: 0x0006 L3 Cache Handle: Not Provided Serial Number: Not Specified Asset Tag: Not Specified Part Number: Not Specified Handle 0x0005, DMI type 7, 19 bytes Cache Information Socket Designation: L1 Cache Configuration: Enabled, Not Socketed, Level 1 Operational Mode: Write Back Location: Internal Installed Size: 64 KB Maximum Size: 64 KB Supported SRAM Types: Burst Pipeline Burst Asynchronous Installed SRAM Type: Asynchronous Speed: Unknown Error Correction Type: Unknown System Type: Unknown Associativity: Unknown Handle 0x0006, DMI type 7, 19 bytes Cache Information Socket Designation: L2 Cache Configuration: Enabled, Not Socketed, Level 2 Operational Mode: Write Through Location: Internal Installed Size: 1024 KB Maximum Size: 1024 KB Supported SRAM Types: Burst Pipeline Burst Synchronous Installed SRAM Type: Synchronous Speed: Unknown Error Correction Type: Unknown System Type: Unified Associativity: Unknown Handle 0x0007, DMI type 9, 13 bytes System Slot Information Designation: PCI Express Slot 1 Type: 64-bit PCI Express Current Usage: Available Length: Short ID: 0 Characteristics: 5.0 V is provided 3.3 V is provided Handle 0x0008, DMI type 9, 13 bytes System Slot Information Designation: PCI Express Slot 2 Type: 64-bit PCI Express Current Usage: Available Length: Short ID: 0 Characteristics: 5.0 V is provided 3.3 V is provided PME signal is supported Hot-plug devices are supported Handle 0x0009, DMI type 10, 6 bytes On Board Device Information Type: Video Status: Enabled Description: Handle 0x000A, DMI type 11, 5 bytes OEM Strings String 1: $HP$ String 2: LOC# Handle 0x000B, DMI type 15, 29 bytes System Event Log Area Length: 16 bytes Header Start Offset: 0x0000 Header Length: 16 bytes Data Start Offset: 0x0010 Access Method: General-purpose non-volatile data functions Access Address: 0x0000 Status: Valid, Not Full Change Token: 0x00000001 Header Format: Type 1 Supported Log Type Descriptors: 3 Descriptor 1: POST error Data Format 1: POST results bitmap Descriptor 2: Single-bit ECC memory error Data Format 2: Multiple-event Descriptor 3: Multi-bit ECC memory error Data Format 3: Multiple-event Handle 0x000C, DMI type 16, 15 bytes Physical Memory Array Location: System Board Or Motherboard Use: System Memory Error Correction Type: None Maximum Capacity: 2 GB Error Information Handle: Not Provided Number Of Devices: 2 Handle 0x000D, DMI type 17, 27 bytes Memory Device Array Handle: 0x000C Error Information Handle: No Error Total Width: 64 bits Data Width: 64 bits Size: 512 MB Form Factor: DIMM Set: 1 Locator: DIMM 1 Bank Locator: Bank 0,1 Type: DDR2 Type Detail: Synchronous Speed: 667 MHz (1.5 ns) Manufacturer: DA00000000000000 Serial Number: 00000111 Asset Tag: Not Specified Part Number: HYMP564S64CP6-Y5 Handle 0x000E, DMI type 17, 27 bytes Memory Device Array Handle: 0x000C Error Information Handle: No Error Total Width: 64 bits Data Width: 64 bits Size: 512 MB Form Factor: DIMM Set: 1 Locator: DIMM 2 Bank Locator: Bank 2,3 Type: DDR2 Type Detail: Unknown Speed: 667 MHz (1.5 ns) Manufacturer: DA00000000000000 Serial Number: 000007D0 Asset Tag: Not Specified Part Number: HYMP564S64CP6-Y5 Handle 0x000F, DMI type 19, 15 bytes Memory Array Mapped Address Starting Address: 0x00000000000 Ending Address: 0x0003FFFFFFF Range Size: 1 GB Physical Array Handle: 0x000C Partition Width: 0 Handle 0x0010, DMI type 20, 19 bytes Memory Device Mapped Address Starting Address: 0x00000000000 Ending Address: 0x0001FFFFFFF Range Size: 512 MB Physical Device Handle: 0x000D Memory Array Mapped Address Handle: 0x000F Partition Row Position: 2 Interleave Position: 2 Interleaved Data Depth: 2 Handle 0x0011, DMI type 20, 19 bytes Memory Device Mapped Address Starting Address: 0x00020000000 Ending Address: 0x0003FFFFFFF Range Size: 512 MB Physical Device Handle: 0x000E Memory Array Mapped Address Handle: 0x000F Partition Row Position: 2 Interleave Position: 2 Interleaved Data Depth: 2 Handle 0x0012, DMI type 32, 20 bytes System Boot Information Status: <OUT OF SPEC> Handle 0x0013, DMI type 127, 4 bytes End Of Table