[nflug] POS BIOS

[Cyber Source]

Acer Aspire. It's a shame too because the rest of it works beautifully 
and is priced right. I've got some dialog currently going with the folks at
linux-acpi at vger.kernel.org
I'll keep the list posted should we come up with a solution.

Robert Meyer wrote:
> I don't have any help for this but would you mind letting us know what 
> kind of laptop this thing is so that we can all avoid them?
>
> Cheers!
>
> Bob
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
> To: nflug at nflug.org
> Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 9:21:42 AM
> Subject: [nflug] POS BIOS
>
> Ok, gotta throw one out for some help.
>   Long story short is, I have a laptop that I just purchased for a
> client, has nvidia and runs perfect with Ubuntu Gutsy except for 1
> little (kinda huge) problem.
>   The bios that ships with most laptops lately , COMPLETELY SUCK  (I
> hate phoenix). There is absolutely NOTHING in the bios to help control
> acpi or apic. My problem is that I have NO SOUND unless I boot with the
> kernel boot option of "acpi=off", then all works perfect except I have
> no battery monitoring, which on a laptop is pretty huge, if this was a
> desktop, it would be no biggie (not sure if it would affect ups
> monitoring). I notice that I have ERR=1 from /proc/interrupts. I have
> tried all sorts of combinations of boot options, including "noapic
> nolapic pnpbios=off" and I forget the rest I've tried, nothing works
> except for turning off acpi completely and then no battery monitor. I've
> looked into apm but can't recompile the kernel because then all the
> other "restricted" packages won't work with the custom kernel and that
> option is basically a pain in the ass. I feel this is probably related
> to the ERR=1 from interrupts but I can't seem to clear this, it only
> gets worse with other boot options I've tried.
> Does anyone know how to reroute irq's or make them behave better (yes
> I've tried pci=routeirq)?
> Has anyone else had this problem and found a solution?
> Currently my work around is 2 grub boot stanza's, one is to have sound
> which runs "acpi=off" and the other is to have no sound and everything
> else works (battery monitor), without the "acpi=off" option.
> Any help please? TIA
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