Hi! > > I used your config advices from second mail, still it does not work as > > expected: system gets "too sleepy". Like it takes a nap during boot > > after "dyn-tick: Maximum ticks to skip limited to 1339", and key is > > needed to make it continue boot. Then cursor stops blinking and > > machine is hung at random intervals during use, key is enough to awake > > it. > > Hmmm, that sounds like the local APIC does not wake up the PIT > interrupt properly after sleep. Hitting the keys causes the timer > interrupt to get called, and that explains why it keeps running. But > the timer ticks are not happening as they should for some reason. > This should not happen (tm)...
:-). Any ideas how to debug it? Previous version of patch seemed to work better... > I've noticed that the only machine I have with ACPI C2/C3 support > does not do anything in the C2/C3 loops, it just spins around and > consumes more power than in C1 with hlt! > > That's because we currently don't have any code to enable the C2/C3 > states in the southbridges on many Athlon boards. It's the same > problem on my Crusoe laptop ALi 1533 chipset. I do not think we should need any chipset-specific code. ACPI is expected to solve it... Can you ask on acpi-devel? -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
