Re: [ACPI] patch: vaio screen workaround cleaned up

[Peter K. <pe...@me...>]

On 25 Feb 2002, Stephane Dudzinski wrote:

> I wrote once to the list about a fx209k hanging on boot with acpi, i was
> pointed out to this patch which i applied with no problems.
>
> It's running redhat 7.2 fully updated with kernel 2.4.17+acpi+workaround
> patch.
>
> It runs nice but randomly dies. I noticed loads of messages concerning
> hard lockups with ACPI 20020214. That's why my vaio gr214mp still runs
> 20011218 with IRQs patch.
>
> Any idea if there's something which will be done for that ?

do you have the problems with the fx209k or with a gr214mp? if the later,
i am sorry i can't help there. the gr series has several differences to
the fx models, so i can't even reproduce any errors. as far as the patch
is concerned, i am thinking about rewriting it so that the _INI block
is more specific to avoid potential side effects. i did not want to
spend too much effort on this because the problem was supposed to be
fixed at some point in the next development kernel series with
the new dribver model, but it looks like this might take some time
before it becomes useful for production systems.

if it is the fx209k, i'll try to find out what is different if you send me the
kernel config file. i suppose you are using the plain 2.4.17 sources from
kernel.org as a base? toolchain versions? which bios version do you have
installed? and send me the log files with error messages and the dsdt
to compare.

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peter koellner <pe...@me...>