Hi, I send this e-mail because my openSUSE10.3, kernel 2.6.22.18-0.2-default detect only one core of two that my intel T2400 processor has. This is the output of dmidecode: _____________________________________ # dmidecode 2.9 SMBIOS 2.31 present. 19 structures occupying 912 bytes. Table at 0x000DC010. Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 20 bytes BIOS Information Vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD Version: R0083N0 Release Date: 07/10/2006 Address: 0xE4580 Runtime Size: 113280 bytes ROM Size: 1024 kB Characteristics: PCI is supported PC Card (PCMCIA) 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 EDD is supported 8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h) CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h) ACPI is supported USB legacy is supported AGP is supported Smart battery is supported BIOS boot specification is supported Function key-initiated network boot is supported Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 25 bytes System Information Manufacturer: Sony Corporation Product Name: VGN-SZ240F Version: J001LQMY Serial Number: 28244243-3001532 UUID: CD3B3360-5B3C-11D9-80ED-0013A92B8453 Wake-up Type: Power Switch Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 10 bytes Base Board Information Manufacturer: Sony Corporation Product Name: VAIO Version: N/A Serial Number: N/A Handle 0x0003, DMI type 3, 17 bytes Chassis Information Manufacturer: Sony Corporation Type: Notebook Lock: Not Present Version: N/A Serial Number: J001LQMY Asset Tag: Boot-up State: Safe Power Supply State: Safe Thermal State: Safe Security Status: None OEM Information: 0x00000009 Handle 0x0004, DMI type 4, 35 bytes Processor Information Socket Designation: N/A Type: Central Processor Family: Other Manufacturer: GenuineIntel ID: E8 06 00 00 FF FB E9 BF Version: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2400 @ 1.83GHz Voltage: 1.4 V External Clock: 166 MHz Max Speed: 1833 MHz Current Speed: 1833 MHz Status: Populated, Enabled Upgrade: None L1 Cache Handle: 0x0005 L2 Cache Handle: 0x0006 L3 Cache Handle: 0x0007 Serial Number: N/A Asset Tag: N/A Part Number: N/A Handle 0x0005, DMI type 7, 19 bytes Cache Information Socket Designation: L1 Cache Configuration: Enabled, Socketed, Level 1 Operational Mode: Write Back Location: Internal Installed Size: 32 KB Maximum Size: 32 KB Supported SRAM Types: Burst Pipeline Burst Asynchronous Installed SRAM Type: Asynchronous Speed: Unknown Error Correction Type: None System Type: Other Associativity: 8-way Set-associative Handle 0x0006, DMI type 7, 19 bytes Cache Information Socket Designation: L2 Cache Configuration: Enabled, Socketed, Level 2 Operational Mode: Write Back Location: Internal Installed Size: 2048 KB Maximum Size: 2048 KB Supported SRAM Types: Burst Pipeline Burst Asynchronous Installed SRAM Type: Burst Speed: Unknown Error Correction Type: None System Type: Data Associativity: 8-way Set-associative Handle 0x0007, DMI type 7, 19 bytes Cache Information Socket Designation: L3 Cache Configuration: Disabled, Not Socketed, Level 3 Operational Mode: Unknown Location: Unknown Installed Size: 0 KB Maximum Size: 0 KB Supported SRAM Types: Burst Pipeline Burst Asynchronous Installed SRAM Type: Burst Speed: Unknown Error Correction Type: None System Type: Data Associativity: 4-way Set-associative Handle 0x0008, DMI type 9, 13 bytes System Slot Information Designation: PCCARD1 Type: 32-bit PC Card (PCMCIA) Current Usage: Available Length: Other ID: Adapter 0, Socket 1 Characteristics: 5.0 V is provided 3.3 V is provided PC Card-16 is supported Cardbus is supported Modem ring resume is supported PME signal is supported Hot-plug devices are supported Handle 0x0009, DMI type 11, 5 bytes OEM Strings String 1: UCG414XSPM String 2: FNC-CCIA0okeHDPW String 3: 6LQP00000000900910174c398bff String 4: Reserved String 5: Reserved Handle 0x000A, DMI type 16, 15 bytes Physical Memory Array Location: System Board Or Motherboard Use: System Memory Error Correction Type: Unknown Maximum Capacity: 2048 GB Error Information Handle: Not Provided Number Of Devices: 2 Handle 0x000B, DMI type 17, 21 bytes Memory Device Array Handle: 0x000A Error Information Handle: Not Provided Total Width: 32 bits Data Width: 32 bits Size: 512 MB Form Factor: SODIMM Set: None Locator: SODIMM1 Bank Locator: Bank 0 Type: DDR Type Detail: Unknown Handle 0x000C, DMI type 17, 21 bytes Memory Device Array Handle: 0x000A Error Information Handle: Not Provided Total Width: 32 bits Data Width: 32 bits Size: 512 MB Form Factor: SODIMM Set: None Locator: SODIMM2 Bank Locator: Bank 1 Type: DDR Type Detail: Unknown Handle 0x000D, DMI type 19, 15 bytes Memory Array Mapped Address Starting Address: 0x00000000000 Ending Address: 0x0003FFFFFFF Range Size: 1 GB Physical Array Handle: 0x000A Partition Width: 0 Handle 0x000E, DMI type 20, 19 bytes Memory Device Mapped Address Starting Address: 0x00000000000 Ending Address: 0x0001FFFFFFF Range Size: 512 MB Physical Device Handle: 0x000B Memory Array Mapped Address Handle: 0x000D Partition Row Position: Unknown Interleave Position: Unknown Interleaved Data Depth: Unknown Handle 0x000F, DMI type 20, 19 bytes Memory Device Mapped Address Starting Address: 0x00020000000 Ending Address: 0x0003FFFFFFF Range Size: 512 MB Physical Device Handle: 0x000C Memory Array Mapped Address Handle: 0x000D Partition Row Position: Unknown Interleave Position: Unknown Interleaved Data Depth: Unknown Handle 0x0010, DMI type 32, 11 bytes System Boot Information Status: No errors detected Handle 0x0011, DMI type 136, 6 bytes OEM-specific Type Header and Data: 88 06 11 00 5A 5A Handle 0x0012, DMI type 127, 4 bytes End Of Table _______________________________________________ This information can be useful, I think. Part of dmesg (normal boot): ______________________________________________ Linux version 2.6.22.18-0.2-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP 2008-06-09 13:53:20 +0200 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003fe70000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000003fe70000 - 000000003fe7e000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000003fe7e000 - 000000003ff00000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000003ff00000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fed14000 - 00000000fed1a000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fed1c000 - 00000000fed90000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 126MB HIGHMEM available. 896MB LOWMEM available. found SMP MP-table at 000f6480 Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 261744) 0 entries of 256 used Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0 -> 4096 Normal 4096 -> 229376 HighMem 229376 -> 261744 early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 0: 0 -> 261744 On node 0 totalpages: 261744 DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 0 pages reserved DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0 Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31 HighMem zone: 252 pages used for memmap HighMem zone: 32116 pages, LIFO batch:7 DMI present. Using APIC driver default ACPI: RSDP 000F63B0, 0014 (r0 PTLTD ) ACPI: RSDT 3FE765D7, 0050 (r1 Sony N0 20060710 PTL 0) ACPI: FACP 3FE7DDDE, 0084 (r2 Sony N0 20060710 PTL 5A) ACPI: DSDT 3FE77E33, 5FAB (r1 Sony N0 20060710 PTL 100000E) ACPI: FACS 3FE7EFC0, 0040 ACPI: APIC 3FE7DE62, 0068 (r1 Sony N0 20060710 PTL 5A) ACPI: BOOT 3FE7DFD8, 0028 (r1 Sony N0 20060710 PTL 1) ACPI: MCFG 3FE7DF02, 003C (r1 Sony N0 20060710 PTL 5A) ACPI: TCPA 3FE7DF3E, 0032 (r1 Sony N0 20060710 PTL 5A52) ACPI: APIC 3FE7DF70, 0068 (r1 Sony N0 20060710 PTL 0) ACPI: SSDT 3FE776B1, 077E (r1 Sony N0 20060710 PTL 20050624) ACPI: SSDT 3FE76EE6, 07CB (r1 Sony N0 20060710 PTL 20050624) ACPI: SSDT 3FE76D3E, 01A8 (r1 Sony N0 20060710 PTL 20050624) ACPI: SSDT 3FE76B09, 0235 (r1 Sony N0 20060710 PTL 20050624) ACPI: SSDT 3FE76627, 04E2 (r1 Sony N0 20060710 PTL 20050624) ACPI: BIOS bug: multiple APIC/MADT found, using 0 ACPI: If "acpi_apic_instance=2" works better, notify linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 6:14 APIC version 20 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level) ACPI: IRQ0 used by override. ACPI: IRQ2 used by override. ACPI: IRQ9 used by override. Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:a0000000) Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 259700 Kernel command line: root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST9100824AS_3PL0J99S-part7 vga=0x317 resume=/dev/sda6 splash=silent bootsplash: silent mode. mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000) mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000) Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes) Detected 1833.493 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Memory: 1029780k/1046976k available (1829k kernel code, 16448k reserved, 764k data, 228k init, 129472k highmem) virtual kernel memory layout: fixmap : 0xffdf4000 - 0xfffff000 (2092 kB) pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB) vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 111 MB) lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000 ( 896 MB) .init : 0xc0390000 - 0xc03c9000 ( 228 kB) .data : 0xc02c969b - 0xc0388964 ( 764 kB) .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02c969b (1829 kB) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3671.29 BogoMIPS (lpj=7342586) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfe9fbff 00100000 00000000 00000000 0000c1a9 00000000 00000000 monitor/mwait feature present. using mwait in idle threads. CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K CPU: L2 cache: 2048K CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 CPU: Processor Core ID: 0 CPU: After all inits, caps: bfe9fbff 00100000 00000000 00002940 0000c1a9 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: 12k freed Unpacking initramfs... done Freeing initrd memory: 4045k freed ACPI: Core revision 20070126 Parsing all Control Methods: Table [DSDT](id 0001) - 923 Objects with 104 Devices 193 Methods 29 Regions Parsing all Control Methods: Table [SSDT](id 0002) - 13 Objects with 3 Devices 4 Methods 0 Regions Parsing all Control Methods: Table [SSDT](id 0003) - 14 Objects with 3 Devices 5 Methods 0 Regions Parsing all Control Methods: Table [SSDT](id 0004) - 5 Objects with 0 Devices 3 Methods 0 Regions Parsing all Control Methods: Table [SSDT](id 0005) - 1 Objects with 0 Devices 1 Methods 0 Regions Parsing all Control Methods: Table [SSDT](id 0006) - 13 Objects with 0 Devices 4 Methods 0 Regions tbxface-0587 [00] tb_load_namespace : ACPI Tables successfully acquired evxfevnt-0091 [00] enable : Transition to ACPI mode successful CPU0: Intel Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2400 @ 1.83GHz stepping 08 Total of 1 processors activated (3671.29 BogoMIPS). ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 Brought up 1 CPUs Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware NET: Registered protocol family 16 ACPI: bus type pci registered PCI: Using MMCONFIG Setting up standard PCI resources evgpeblk-0956 [00] ev_create_gpe_block : GPE 00 to 1F [_GPE] 4 regs on int 0x9 evgpeblk-1052 [00] ev_initialize_gpe_bloc: Found 8 Wake, Enabled 5 Runtime GPEs in this block ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT Completing Region/Field/Buffer/Package initialization:................................... Initialized 28/29 Regions 4/4 Fields 28/29 Buffers 13/40 Packages (978 nodes) Initializing Device/Processor/Thermal objects by executing _INI methods:<4>ACPI: System BIOS is requesting _OSI(Linux) ACPI: Please test with "acpi_osi=!Linux" Please send dmidecode to linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ... ______________________________________________ I check with different boots. Normal boot. Wireless disabled Only one core is detected Sound OK Battery AC/DC state information OK Wireless enabled Only one core is detected Sound OK Internet wireless OK. Battery AC/DC state information OK acpi_osi=!Linux boot. Wireless disabled Only one core is detected Sound OK Battery AC/DC state information Fail Wireless enabled Only one core is detected Sound OK Internet wireless OK. Battery AC/DC state information Fail acpi_apic_instance=2 acpi_osi=!Linux boot. Wireless enabled Two core is detected, but one is disabled. See http://i34.tinypic.com/do58gz.jpg Sound OK Internet wireless OK. -- 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