From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 8 11:30:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99BE316A4E1 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 11:30:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yraffah@savola.com) Received: from heathrow.savoladns.com (heathrow.savoladns.com [212.12.174.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6833F43D46 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 11:30:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yraffah@savola.com) Received: from ocs.savola.com (ocs.savola.com [222.22.1.211]) by heathrow.savoladns.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5305C9584F; Sat, 8 Jul 2006 14:30:05 +0300 (AST) Received: from 212.12.174.2 by ocs.savola.com with ESMTP id 66539881152357445; Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:17:25 +0300 From: Yousef Raffah To: John Baldwin In-Reply-To: <200607060757.59851.john@baldwin.cx> References: <1152019643.704.42.camel@redevil.savola.com> <1152028572.704.4.camel@redevil.savola.com> <1152110870.677.23.camel@redevil.savola.com> <200607060757.59851.john@baldwin.cx> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ywmT32FOfUWFndiELnpG" Organization: The Savola Group Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 14:29:11 +0300 Message-Id: <1152358151.679.27.camel@redevil.savola.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interrupt Storms on irq:11 with Tecra A4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: yraffah@savola.com List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 11:30:08 -0000 --=-ywmT32FOfUWFndiELnpG Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 07:57 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 05 July 2006 10:47, Yousef Raffah wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 18:56 +0300, Yousef Raffah wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 16:27 +0300, Yousef Raffah wrote: > > > > I just updated my BIOS yesterday in order to test if my laptop will > > > > "ever" work with ACPI under FreeBSD. > > > >=20 > > > > The test resulted in having interrupt storm on irq:11 whenever acpi= is > > > > enabled during the boot process. I have tried to disable apic from = my > > > > kernel but that didn't help, same results. > > > > I know interrupt storms can be "ok" to ignore but I guess that is n= ot an > > > > option in my case as it is disabling my hard drive! > > > >=20 > > > > Googling for interrupt storm gave me results of people having the s= ame > > > > problem but I still can't find how to overcome this. Not sure if I = can > > > > get a dmesg output with the interrupt storm, any ideas? > > > >=20 > > Sorry for bothering everyone on the list with my problem but I really > > need to get over this interrupt storm thing. Can someone at least tell > > me what am I supposed to do (without flaming please :) ) in order to > > overcome this? >=20 > I would have to have a verbose dmesg with ACPI enabled to have any hope o= f > trying to debug it. Unfortunately many laptops don't have serial ports t= o > use for a serial console nowadays. Does yours have a working serial port= ? >=20 I don't have the DB9 port, it is a DB25 and I have a firewire port as well, but I will see what I can do about it. -- Sincerely, Yousef Raffah Senior Systems Administrator -- Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at http://www.getfirefox.com --=-ywmT32FOfUWFndiELnpG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEr5cHH9IXMb4e6CMRAoSRAKCR8t5mzGpsCIToPON/ApwlI7IlugCfWdfG lEw1GcLmJ/h6t0bF3Rd4gDs= =/YCG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ywmT32FOfUWFndiELnpG--