Re: IRQ Routing Problem on ALi Chipset Laptop (HP Pavilion N5425)

[Daniel Gryniewicz]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 11:41:44 -0500 (EST)
John Clemens <[e-mail]> wrote:

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> > ACPI seems to work on my laptop (detects ACPI resources, thermal
> > zone, etc), but if I "cat /proc/acpi/events" and press the suspend or
> > power buttons, I don't get anything. On my old NEC Versa LX, I'd get a
> > few junk chars for each press (been a while since I tried it, though). I
> > don't see any interrupts on IRQ 9, either.
> 
> I'm not 100% sure how ACPI works, period. I've got it up and running, but
> about the only thing it does seem to report correctly is battery life
> (and, I assume, it uses ACPI idle..)..  everything else appears to be just
> window dressing for now.. not sure if that's a limitation of hardware or
> the linux ACPI implementation.

I have an N5415, and am using your k7 patch (thanks much!).  I don't use USB,
so I didn't try or comment on your patch.  However, I was never able to get
ACPI to work.  If I compiled it in without APM compiled in, it always hung on
boot.  So, I have only APM, which doesn't even show the battery life
correctly.  Whether or not I can suspend, knowing battery life would be an
improvement.  Is there something special I have to do to get ACPI to work? 
(I'm currently using 2.4.13-ac7-preempt-k7, but I've tried 2.4.1[56] also, as
well as many earlier kernels.)

Daniel
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