msi megabook s420 acpi issues

[Dimitri Van Landuyt]

Steve Flynn wrote:
> On 06/10/06, *Dimitri Van Landuyt* <dimitri.vanlanduyt at gmail.com 
> <mailto:dimitri.vanlanduyt at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I have this laptop: MSI Megabook s420 (ms-141214 barebone) and I'm
>     having problems running ubuntu on this notebook: it will not boot
>     unless I add "hpet=disable" as kernel parameter. Also, ACPI is not
>     working correctly: e.g. a constant temperature is given, I can not scale
>        cpu, remaining battery time is incorrect,...
> 
>     I filed this bug to start with upstream:
>     http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7266
>     <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7266>
> 
>     However, maybe someone on this mailing list can help me further?
> 
> 
> I notice from the bug report that you say
> 
> "When booting, I can also see some messages (something like BIOS not supported),
> 
> these messages do not end up in the kernel log, and they scroll away too fast.
> How can I get hold of them?"
> 
> 
> Does "dmesg" not give you any further information
> 
> Also, have you tried with the "no_timer_check" boot option?

Thanks for your answer,

unfortunately the no_timer_check option still makes my machine hang at 
the hpet stuff.
are you certain it is a valid parameter?
dmesg doesn't show these messages, they are not in the kernel log. I 
guess they happen before logging is started?

Dimitri