[Adding linux-acpi to the CC list.] On Tuesday 24 November 2009, Mike Smith wrote: > I have a brand new Satellite L505D-S5983 which I'm trying to install > Linux on. Whenever I boot a Linux kernel on it with no special > parameters it enters an in(de)finite loop dumping messages like this: > > ACPI Error (uteval-0313): Return object type is incorrect > [\_SB_.HSB1._STA] (Node ffff8800af8121a0), AE_TYPE > ACPI Error: Type returned from _STA was incorrect: Device, expected > Btypes: 1 20090521 uteval-319 > ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [DR ] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND > ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed > [\_SB_.VALZ._STA] (Node ffff8800af812540), AE_NOT_FOUND > ACPI Error: Found unknown opcode 39 at AML address ffffc900000132cd > offset 0, ignoring 20090521 psloop-137 > [...] > > If I boot with acpi=noirq these messages only continue for a few > seconds, although they cause a couple of initscripts to hang later on. > With ACPI fully enabled they keep appearing forever and the system > doesn't finish booting. With acpi=off they don't appear at all (but > the fan stays at low speed and the laptop gets quite hot if run for > more than a few minutes). > > I've found only one other mention of this problem on the internet > (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8358864#post8358864) from > someone with the same laptop as mine, but there was no working fix > posted to that thread beyond completely disabling ACPI. More research > told me that there used to be a way of fixing up the DSDT and having > it loaded from the initrd but the new policy is to just ask the > manufacturer to fix it and the kernel developers to work around it, > so... here it is. (Angry emails to Toshiba and Best Buy pending.) > > Full dmesg output can be found at http://slexy.org/view/s25zU08AKJ > (By the way, what's the correct way to include dmesg output in a lkml > message if you don't know for sure which parts are relevant? Dumping > all 50k or so of it into the email seems like the wrong thing to > do...) I think it's better if you file a bug report against ACPI at bugzilla.kernel.org. Thanks, Rafael -- 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
