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Well, I have loaded Slackware12.0 on my notebook, and found some interesting results, and I am not sure, but it might look like ACPI/APIC might actually be functioning this time, and also my broadcom(wireless) is detected but gives a weird status. I would like some helpful tips from other fellow Slackers about how I should proceed with some of these results. I am using the default hugesmp.s.
Sys specs: See my sig. I apologize that this post is rather long due to all the results of dmesg and syslog, as well as being a bit too broad in my request for some advice on how to proceed from here. I guess I am looking for someone who has tried Slack on an HP notebook, or at least any notebook to point me in a better direction. To try to specify, I guess I want to know how to verify that MAYBE ACPI/APIC is working correctly now, (HP-DV notebooks, seem to have ACPI/APIC issues under linux, according to many nights spent on google about HP and Linux)
Note: I have had this notebook for almost a year, I got this notebook just two months before the release of Slackware 11.0, and so I know that things are quite different for my notebook since 12.0 has been released.
First part of dmesg (ACPI) I remember at this part I would get a weird BIOS error on ACPI but it would not affect startup. Could it be, ACPI/APIC is functioning completetly on HP notebooks now?
Code:
Linux version 2.6.21.5-smp (root@midas) (gcc version 4.1.2) #2 SMP Tue Jun 19 14:58:11 CDT 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
sanitize start
sanitize end
copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 000000000009dc00 end: 000000000009dc00 type: 1
copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
copy_e820_map() start: 000000000009dc00 size: 0000000000002400 end: 00000000000a0000 type: 2
copy_e820_map() start: 00000000000d2000 size: 000000000002e000 end: 0000000000100000 type: 2
copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000100000 size: 000000007fe00000 end: 000000007ff00000 type: 1
copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
copy_e820_map() start: 000000007ff00000 size: 0000000000017000 end: 000000007ff17000 type: 3
copy_e820_map() start: 000000007ff17000 size: 0000000000069000 end: 000000007ff80000 type: 4
copy_e820_map() start: 000000007ff80000 size: 0000000000080000 end: 0000000080000000 type: 2
copy_e820_map() start: 00000000e0000000 size: 0000000010000000 end: 00000000f0000000 type: 2
copy_e820_map() start: 00000000fec00000 size: 0000000000010000 end: 00000000fec10000 type: 2
copy_e820_map() start: 00000000fee00000 size: 0000000000001000 end: 00000000fee01000 type: 2
copy_e820_map() start: 00000000fff80000 size: 0000000000080000 end: 0000000100000000 type: 2
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009dc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009dc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000d2000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007ff00000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000007ff00000 - 000000007ff17000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000007ff17000 - 000000007ff80000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000007ff80000 - 0000000080000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
1151MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f8960
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 524032) 0 entries of 256 used
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0 -> 4096
Normal 4096 -> 229376
HighMem 229376 -> 524032
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
0: 0 -> 524032
On node 0 totalpages: 524032
DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap
Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 2302 pages used for memmap
HighMem zone: 292354 pages, LIFO batch:31
DMI present.
ACPI: RSDP 000F8930, 0014 (r0 HP )
ACPI: RSDT 7FF0DE06, 003C (r1 HPQOEM SLIC-MPC 6040000 LTP 0)
ACPI: FACP 7FF16CCE, 0074 (r1 HP MCP51M 6040000 PTL_ F4240)
ACPI: DSDT 7FF0DE42, 8E8C (r1 HP MCP51M 6040000 MSFT 3000000)
ACPI: FACS 7FF17FC0, 0040
ACPI: SSDT 7FF16D42, 01C4 (r1 HP POWERNOW 6040000 LTP 1)
ACPI: MCFG 7FF16F06, 003C (r1 HP MCFG 6040000 LTP 0)
ACPI: HPET 7FF16F42, 0038 (r1 PTLTD HPETTBL 6040000 LTP 1)
ACPI: APIC 7FF16F7A, 005E (r1 HP APIC 6040000 LTP 0)
ACPI: BOOT 7FF16FD8, 0028 (r1 HP $SBFTBL$ 6040000 LTP 1)
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:8 APIC version 16
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
Processor #1 15:8 APIC version 16
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
ACPI: HPET id: 0x10de8201 base: 0xfed00000
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 88000000 (gap: 80000000:60000000)
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 519938
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=807
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
Detected 1808.242 MHz processor.
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
I guess I want to know how to verify that MAYBE ACPI/APIC is working correctly now
try to open the laptop battery configuration module in KDE, if acpi isn't working, it will complain...
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The last part is interesting, Radio turned off, how do I turn it on?
I use "Fn-F2" on my dell laptop to turn on and off radio. The bios seems to take care of it.
I think iwconfig also has an option to turn on and off the radio, check man iwconfig.
I can't not say too much about Slackware, since my father has a HP computer (much older but HP anyway..) and I installed Kubuntu on it to avoid him having to learn (he doesn't want to..).
The APIC problem which caused a lot of troubles (specially a undesirable slow down) few months ago was fixed in new kernel releases (I think it was 2.6.19), so I guess you won't have troubles with it.
Regarding the Broadcom I guess this line says it all:
Quote:
Jul 3 18:52:57 slaptop kernel: bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
You need to get the firmware in order to get bcm43xx driver to work, search for broadcom cutter which is used to get the firmware.
Personally, I'd like to see the bcm43xx to become mature, but with my father's card (AirForce One) I had better results using ndiswrapper.
Originally Posted by gbonvehi
The APIC problem which caused a lot of troubles (specially a undesirable slow down) few months ago was fixed in new kernel releases (I think it was 2.6.19), so I guess you won't have troubles with it.
This is quite interesting, and I've looked at the changelogs from kernel.org, but haven't found anything about APIC/ACPI for HP (might have overlooked it?), because I checked Linux-on-laptops site, and got into other forums about the HP DV-series (sorry I don't remember or have the sites right now), and most users who purchased these types of laptops have problems, but then again this was on kernels less than 2.6.19 at the time. Actually, when I installed 11.0 on the notebook, things ran relatively ok, minus of course the wireless and media buttons. I still don't have media buttons working right now, but even in the previous version, I could shutdown and restart with no problems, however I never could get the battery monitor to work. Plus I did flash the bios (from hp's site), but it seems that may not(?) have 'fixed' ACPI/APIC. Maybe the developers at kernel.org found a workaround?
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