Re: ACPI Diagnostics [Was: PANIC, screen shot included, ffs related] (Modified by Dan Janowski)

[Dan Janowski <danj@xxxxxxxxx>]

Testing results:
dell Insp. 3500

no pc cards, GENERIC kernel, 1.0A release

I. acpi on
  A. no disable flags
    1. wall power
      a. boot
		-- mostly stops, sometimes boots. an instance of running rc, then 
stopping.
      b. boot -s
        -- consistently makes it to /bin/sh prompt
    2. battery power
      a. boot
        -- mostly stops, sometimes boots
      b. boot -s
        -- consistently gets to /bin/sh

  B. 'set debug.acpi.disabled="cmbat"
    a. boot
      -- boots consistently

  C. 'set debug.acpi.disabled="thermal"
    a. boot
      -- stops

  D. 'set debug.acpi.disabled="pci"
    a. boot
      -- starts rc, then hangs dead

I would say it is in 'cmbat' or something that does not get done when 
it is disabled.
It also seems timing related (may interrupt) because of the 
inconsistency of the hangs.

Hope this helps.

Dan



On Jul 25, 2004, at 11:01, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote:

> Hi.
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 09:30:12AM -0400, Dan Janowski wrote:
> > Attached dmesg, hope it helps. As an aside, this machine does not boot
> > with ACPI enabled; I made a previous post about it. It is a Dell
> > Inspiron 3500 (laptop).
>
> Can you try setting the kernel environment variable debug.acpi.disabled
> from the boot prompt as I posted earlier on this list? The value
> is space-separated list of one or more of the following keywords.
>
> acad bus button children cmbat cpu ec
> isa lid pci pci_link sysresource thermal timer
>
> pci, thermal, cmbat have been reported to be the problem, so you may
> want to try them first.