<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">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?<br><br>Cheers!<br><br>Bob<br><div> </div>--<br>"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."<br> --Leonardo da Vinci<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Cyber Source <peter@thecybersource.com><br>To: nflug@nflug.org<br>Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 9:21:42 AM<br>Subject: [nflug] POS BIOS<br><br>
Ok, gotta throw one out for some help.<br> Long story short is, I have a laptop that I just purchased for a <br>client, has nvidia and runs perfect with Ubuntu Gutsy except for 1 <br>little (kinda huge) problem.<br> The bios that ships with most laptops lately , COMPLETELY SUCK (I <br>hate phoenix). There is absolutely NOTHING in the bios to help control <br>acpi or apic. My problem is that I have NO SOUND unless I boot with the
<br>kernel boot option of "acpi=off", then all works perfect except I have <br>no battery monitoring, which on a laptop is pretty huge, if this was a <br>desktop, it would be no biggie (not sure if it would affect ups <br>monitoring). I notice that I have ERR=1 from /proc/interrupts. I have <br>tried all sorts of combinations of boot options, including "noapic <br>nolapic pnpbios=off" and I forget the rest I've tried, nothing works <br>except for turning off acpi completely and then no battery monitor.
I've <br>looked into apm but can't recompile the kernel because then all the <br>other "restricted" packages won't work with the custom kernel and that <br>option is basically a pain in the ass. I feel this is probably related <br>to the ERR=1 from interrupts but I can't seem to clear this, it only <br>gets worse with other boot options I've tried.<br>Does anyone know how to reroute irq's or make them behave better (yes <br>I've tried pci=routeirq)?<br>Has anyone else had this problem and found a solution?<br>Currently my work around is 2 grub boot stanza's, one is to have sound <br>which runs "acpi=off" and the other is to have no sound and everything <br>else works (battery monitor), without the "acpi=off" option.<br>Any help please? TIA<br>_______________________________________________<br>nflug mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:nflug@nflug.org" href="mailto:nflug@nflug.org">nflug@nflug.org</a><br><a
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