Re: Acer Aspire AS5672 laptop - acpi problems

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:38:04AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Monday 17 July 2006 10:55, Bruno Ducrot wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 04:27:09PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> > > On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:59:27 +0200
> > > Bruno Ducrot <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Maybe you can try without ACPI and without APIC?
> > > 
> > > I've already tried without acpi. I will dig out the incantation for
> > > disabling the apic and try that.
> > > Is there any use in testing both together (ie. no acip + no apic)?
> > > Or is that just nonsense?
> > 
> > With ACPI, the interrupt for the bge is 17, and without it's 18.
> > Maybe it should be really 17 instead of 18?
> > 
> > Therefore trying with atpic instead of apic may solve at least
> > a bad interrupt routing for this device if apic is used.
> 
> You can force the IRQ to 18 in the non-ACPI case via a tunable in the loader:
> 
> hw.pci4.0.INTA.irq=18
> 
> Odd, I only see dmesg's with ACPI enabled (which have IRQ 18), I've yet to 
> find one with ACPI disabled.  Ah found it an earlier thread which has 17 for 
> the !ACPI case.  So try it with ACPI disabled and the above tunable.  Also, 
> it should work with both ACPI and APIC disabled.

I don't see how this tunable (irq 18) can work if APIC is disabled,
shouldn't this tunable lesser than 16 in that case?

-- 
Bruno Ducrot

--  Which is worse:  ignorance or apathy?
--  Don't know.  Don't care.
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