msi megabook s420 acpi issues
Dimitri Van Landuyt
dimitri.vanlanduyt at gmail.com
Fri Oct 6 12:07:28 UTC 2006
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
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