Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:36:16 -0400 | From | Rich West <> | Subject | Re: sata_via |
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Rich West wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> Jeff Garzik wrote: >>> Rich West wrote: >>>> I was only curious as to what turning off power management support >>>> would buy with regard to the sata timeout issue. >>> >>> >>> ACPI is not only power management. It is all the information your >>> hardware conveys to your OS, about the setup and workings of your >>> hardware. >>> >>> Without ACPI, non-PM things like SMP, laptop dock/undock, and many >>> other gadgets fail to function (or are configured sub-optimally). >>> >>> ACPI sets up interrupt routing, and Linux history is _loaded_ with >>> _years_ of problem reports that appear as timeouts, only to be >>> resolved as ACPI interrupt bugs (aka BIOS bugs, since ACPI tables >>> come from BIOS). >> >> Also, please give a shot at the sacred "irqpoll". > > I've had bad luck in the past (with other machiens) when adding > "irqpoll" in that it had locked up the entire machine (not this one, > but others) after a very short period of time. My only attempt at > using it, though, was to try to address an X server related issue, but > this is a non-user machine, so X isn't necessary, and, hence, it's at > runlevel 3 all of the time. > > So far, noapic and acpi=off seem to be working.. The system has been > up 8 days without any problems.. previously, a problem with the SATA > drive (details of which were part of the first few messages in this > thread) would surface anywhere between 15 minutes and 5-7 days after a > reboot. > > However, since I started this email, I tried firing up X (with noapci > and acpi=off both set), the machine locks up entirely.
Although a reboot with irqpoll set managed to fix that X problem. :)
-Rich
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