Grub issues (Re: [ACPI] [toshiba 3000] New asl and update of the kernel module for temperature controls)

[Ducrot B. <du...@po...>]

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 09:06:59PM +0200, Nikolaus Filus wrote:
> Hallo Ducrot,
> 
> it works, it works!!!! :)

Fine !!!

<snip>

> Now, that it's working, how to apply your changes? I do not know very much
> about acpi, as you propably can see.

For the module, just do a:
make
make install

then do a :
modprobe tosh3k


It doesn't use ACPI.  It is only a "bonus" for all toshiba 3000 models :)

But for the ACPI case, I only support a subset of the toshiba 3000, that
is 100 and 400.  But I am currently working on others models too, so stay
stuned.

> >I really don't know what happen exactly.  Could you please send me
> >your .config and also your lspci -v ?
> 
> Ok, I'll attach my pci config.

Thank, but I doubt that it will be usefull, now, because your AE_MEMORY like
error is now fixed...

> >Why also have you this mem=261632K ?
> >
> >Note that setting explicitely the mem could be dangerous in this laptop:
> >the laptop need to explicitely have some ram reserved for the smbios, and
> >this one should be avoided if you set mem at boot time.  Better to _not_
> >include this at your boot option, or to explicitely make something like
> >
> >mem = 256M - (about 1M or 2M)
> >
> >I think also that your trouble come from this setting.
> 
> YES! That was the needed hint. The problem was, that grub (my bootloader)
> appends this info to the bootline. I changed it now explicitly to mem=253M
> and it works.

Ah.  Perhaps it should be included in a FAQ ?   Something like:
"if you use grub version xxx, also set explicitly the mem argument as ..."

Note that I use grub, but my version of grub don't set explicitely the mem
argument.  Perhaps a "feature" of newer version of grub ?


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