Re: lenovo R60 SMP/APIC_IO woes

[Andrew Atrens <atrens@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Turner wrote:
> Andrew Atrens wrote:
>> Symptoms are - bge0 watchdog timeouts, with ethereal I see TX's on the wire - but can't receive
>> any packets. sound doesn't work  pcm0:play:0:dsp0.0: play interrupt timeout, channel dead. for
>> the disk, controller is detected, but no disks found.
> 
> Had similar problems with an acer F1000 with bge0
> (which processor wise is a turion X2 proc)

It is - a T2300

> did you try *with* SMP and *without* APIC_IO ?

Nope. Haven't tried that!

Hmm. I though APIC_IO was needed for SMP to work... I've never been 100% sure about how the two
are coupled though.

> 
> that seemed to fix my bge lockups.
> 
> havent tried sound, or similarly have not been able to get the hdd
> in non PATA compatibility. NATA didn't work for me but I've not yet
> been able to issue a coherent investigation report (or try -HEAD)..
> it might be worth a shot for you.


I'm using -HEAD and nata - works for me :)

> 
> (for NATA, dig around on the wiki, there is something about what is needed)
> 
>> Oh, EST is broken, too, but that's because the CPU runs at 1.66GHz and the cpu reports as -
>> hw.model: Genuine Intel(R) CPU           T2300  @ 1.66GHz
>>
> 
> not too worried on this because 'ACPI idle hook not enabled for SMP'..


Oh, I suppose. Is that what estd uses to decide when to slow stuff down ?


> 
> my laptop is a work in progress.. but as long as theres power its ok :)
> 
> good luck

thanks for the tip! :)

Cheers,

Andrew