[nflug] #*!%@ intel crap!!!! SOLVED **** NOT

[Boice]

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>>>>> Wow, after much much goolgeage.....The little trick seems to be
>>>>> acpi=ht as a kernel boot argument. What a pain-in-the-***!!!!!!!
>>>>> At least it has sound now, nothing worse than taking someones smokin
>>>>> toshiba laptop with 17" wide screen, 2GB ram, etc., and saying, oh
>>>>> every thing works good, wireless, etc., but no sound..
>>>>> Freakin intel #%*!
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>>>> Congratulations!
>>>> I know my own frustrations with odd problems at times, and am glad this
>>>> [finally] is one that you can put in the "win" column.
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>>>> Please accept this virtual bottle of champagne to celebrate your victory.
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>>>> --John
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>>> Nothin sweeter than finally figuring out some pain in the ass
>>> problem....Gotta love it.
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>> Well I can put the champagne away. Adding acpi=ht disables all acpi
>> functions except hyper threading, including stuff like battery
>> monitoring, etc., which on a laptop is pretty useful. So, I am stuck
>> between working battery or working sound, WTF!!!! I tie this all down to
>> the POS phoenix BIOS on this thing, IF you can call it a BIOS, it is SO
>> simplistic it's not funny. I did see in the interrupts that the hda
>> intel device is the only device listed as PCI-MSI and not IO-APIC like
>> everything else. If anyone knows of some easy tricks for apic or apci
>> for the kernel boot options, please let me know (no way I'm attempting a
>> kernel recompile, as seems that most googleage suggests). Some magic
>> command line that would make the sound and battery work in this thing
>> would be wonderful.
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> Well since I really don't expect a quick fix on this, I just made 2 boot
> entries in grub, one to boot into if there going to be plugged in and
> they'll have sound and the other to boot into if there going to be on
> battery and need the notifications and such and they won't have sound.
> Just another #@$! bullshit thing to have for Linux and have them say,
> gee it all works well in windows....
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MLB!

["Major League Bummer"]

I know what you mean about the POS BIOS that some Toshi laptops use. My
Satellite M35 has the same --or a similar--  and others in the Linux
community have griped about it.  I like my Toshiba in most other
respects just fine, but this CMOS is %$#&*.

I don't have time right now to do any real research. Got things to do as
the wife is going in for surgery tomorrow AM.

 Since my Toshi has NVIDIA graphics, I can't run any experiments
parallel to yours, but one possible thing for you to try comes to my mind.

You're probably way ahead of me, considering how long you've been
wrestling with this. But:
re:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Kernel_Parameters_for_ACPI/APIC

What if you were to use the boot argument:
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acpi_irq_pci=irq_number
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and make certain it was using an irq that was not being used by the
sound or any other vital device?

Sorry if I'm a day late / dollar short with that suggestion.  You
probably already tried it.

Your work-around with the 2 boot options in GRUB would be fine for me to
deal with on my own machine.  I almost never run the battery alone
anyway.   But, I know, when you're working on somebody else's baby, it
hurts the pride in one's workmanship  to have to deliver a job with a
built-in band-aid solution.

Good luck. We'll get to the champagne on this one yet. . .

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