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

eric eric at bootz.us
Wed Nov 15 08:59:41 EST 2006


What about installing another sound card pcmci that would be a different
approach... you could just tell them the sound card you put it in was
free.  Not sure if this helped, hope so.

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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.
>>>>>>[pop!]
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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 #@$! bullshit thing to have for Linux and have them say,
>>>gee it all works well in windows....
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>>MLB!
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>>["Major League Bummer"]
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>>I know what you mean about the POS BIOS that some Toshi laptops use. My
>>Satellite M35 has the same --or a similar--  and others in the Linux
>>community have griped about it.  I like my Toshiba in most other
>>respects just fine, but this CMOS is %$#&*.
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>>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.
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>> 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.
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>>You're probably way ahead of me, considering how long you've been
>>wrestling with this. But:
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>>http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Kernel_Parameters_for_ACPI/APIC
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>>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?
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>>Sorry if I'm a day late / dollar short with that suggestion.  You
>>probably already tried it.
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>>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.
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>>Good luck. We'll get to the champagne on this one yet. . .
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>thanks, I did try that line and it changed it to another irq (hda
>intel), maybe I should have tried it with noapic, maybe I did, don't
>remember now, did it so many times. It does suck to put out a box like
>this, it always makes Linux look like it's laking, especially to
>non-computer people, and these people are. These people are old mandrake
>8 clients of mine that came back and really were turned off by shit not
>working in mandrake and I talked em round again, now this shit, freakin
>intel/phoenix crapola!
>1 thing I can say, this box rocks and makes the xp media center side of
>it look like a turtle!
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