Re: PROBLEM: PCI setup hangs on Asus Notebook (nolapic helps)

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Jun 21 2007 - 08:28:17 EST


> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:05:27 +0200 Malte Cornils <malte@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> my Asus M2N Notebook hangs doing the following on 2.6.22-rc3 (from Ubuntu
> Gutsy Gibbon Tribe-1):
>
> Setting up standard PCI resources
>
> The non-scrollable output on the full screen can be found here:
> http://planck.djpig.de/~mcornils/pci-hang.jpg
>
> Booting with nolapic helps, but makes the SATAized IDE controller buggy
> (spontaneous timeouts occuring, which do not happen on OpenBSD or Windows XP
> (shiver)).
>
> I'm using the latest BIOS (A208). Now I know it's buggy as hell and I've
> already complained to Asus, but to no avail.
>
> There have been other reports of the problem on Asus notebooks. I've collected
> some links:
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8278
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/83290
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7906 (maybe related)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/8012 (maybe
> related)
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/2006/12/msg01017.html (german)
>
> I'm willing to provide any needed information (like DSDT table, system
> info, ...) and try out almost anything (I do not have a serial console handy
> though - the system does not have serial).
>

Are any of these problems new behaviour, or has it always done this?

If there _is_ new behaviour here, are you able to identify which earlier
kernel versions did not exhibit it?

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