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debian sarge on my dell c610

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purpledemon

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Hey guys,

Im a relative newbie to the linux world and I have settled on debian on my distro of choice. I have it working on most of my machines and the last one in the queue is my laptop, a dell c610.

Using the netinstall, I got the os working fine for the most part. The one thing that doesnt seem to be working right is power management. Basically, If i plug in the the power cable or unplug the power cable, the latptop freezes. It boots and runs just fine either under power or under battery. However, as soon as I plug/unplug it, I am sol.

I havent even started to tinker with battery monitors and such. I'd like to get this working first. I have been using the documents on http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/dell.html but they all talk about problems only with the 2.4 kernel. My kernel version is 2.6.8.

Does anyone have any clues?

Thanks
 
I just installed the acpi and acpid packages. The install seemed to work fine.
Here is the output from running acpi -V

Battery 1: discharging, 90%, 02:34:44 remaining
Thermal 1: ok, 41.0 degrees C
AC Adapter 1: off-line


So, it looks like the battery is recognized. I am going to try and plug the power back in to see if it hangs again.
 
That's pretty freaking crappy behavior. I haven't had any problems like that at all on any laptop I've ever used.

Best go thru and disable acpi or apm and see if either are causing issues. They are mutually exclusive things, if you have both apmd and acpid deamons running it can cause problems. So I'd check that.

I'd try to selectively disable apm support and acpi support and see if that helps. Add acpi=off or apm=off to your kernel boot-time argumentes to disable either power management feature.

See if disabling either of them, or both will stop the crashing...
 
thanks for the reply drag.

I didnt know how to check whether I had apm support, so I installed xapm. When i run xapm, I get the following message
No APM support in kernel

I'm assuming that its not apm interfering with acpi then?

I will try your suggestion of turning acpi off and post my findings.

turning off acpi at bootime did not help 🙁
 
my dmesg output(if it helps any)

Linux version 2.6.8-1-386 (dilinger@toaster.hq.voxel.net) (gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-11)) #1
Mon Sep 13 23:29:55 EDT 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003ffe2800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003ffe2800 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000feda0000 - 00000000fee00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Warning only 896MB will be used.
Use a HIGHMEM enabled kernel.
896MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 229376
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL ) @ 0x000fde50
ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d20811 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fde64
ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d20811 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fde90
ACPI: DSDT (v001 INT430 SYSFexxx 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 ro
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 32768 bytes)
Detected 996.807 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 901828k/917504k available (1329k kernel code, 14892k reserved, 727k data, 204k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 1978.36 BogoMIPS
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000040
CPU: Intel Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU - M 1000MHz stepping 04
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 996.0569 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 132.0875 MHz.
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (ungzip failed); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 4316k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbfee, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 5 7) *11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 5 7 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCIE._PRT]
ACPI: Power Resource [PADA] (on)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fe2d0
PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xe2f4, dseg 0x40
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x800-0x85f has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x860-0x87f has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x880-0x8bf has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x8c0-0x8ff has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x3f0-0x3f1 has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x900-0x90f has been reserved
pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x910-0x91f has been reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0xbf40-0xbf5f has been reserved
pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0xbf20-0xbf3f has been reserved
PnPBIOS: 15 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 15 recorded by driver
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 7
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5 -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.6 -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.1[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Initializing Cryptographic API
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 54 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.6 -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S4bios S5)
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 4316 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... \
\
done.
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed
vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH3M: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ICH3M: chipset revision 2
ICH3M: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xbfa0-0xbfa7, BIOS settings: hda😀MA, hdb😛io
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xbfa8-0xbfaf, BIOS settings: hdc😀MA, hdd😛io
hda: IC25N020ATCS04-0, ATA DISK drive
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 39070080 sectors (20003 MB) w/1768KiB Cache, CHS=38760/16/63, UDMA(100)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3
hdc: HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD-ROM GCC-4240N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: hda3: orphan cleanup on readonly fs
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1681287
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 1681281
EXT3-fs: hda3: 2 orphan inodes deleted
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding 976744k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Capability LSM initialized
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
Linux Kernel Card Services
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:01.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:01.0 [1028:00e3]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:02:01.0, mfunc 0x01261222, devctl 0x64
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0438, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:01.1 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.1[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:01.1 [1028:00e3]
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:02:01.1, mfunc 0x01261222, devctl 0x64
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0438, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000006
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
0000:02:00.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xec80. Vers LK1.1.19
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 1.01, 23:45:25 Sep 13 2004
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5 -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
i810: Intel ICH3 found at IO 0xdc80 and 0xd800, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000, IRQ 7
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: CRY91 (Unknown)
i810_audio: '''97 codec 0 supports AMAP, total channels = 2
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 11, io base 0000bf80
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using address 2
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Optical USB Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1
Firmware: 5.7
180 degree mounted touchpad
Sensor: 27
new absolute packet format
Touchpad has extended capability bits
-> multifinger detection
-> palm detection
-> pass-through port
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1
serio: Synaptics pass-through port at isa0060/serio1/input0
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on synaptics-pt/serio0
input: PC Speaker
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
parport0: irq 7 in use, resorting to polled operation
inserting floppy driver for 2.6.8-1-386
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
agpgart: Detected an Intel 830M Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 816M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xd0000000
cpci_hotplug: CompactPCI Hot Plug Core version: 0.2
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
hw_random: RNG not detected
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.6 -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.6 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery absent)
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2 C3)
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SBTN]
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM] (59 C)
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c02c95a0(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.11.0 20020828 on minor 0: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x
 
You can try to see if you can find a update for your BIOS.

try disabling acpi thru passing "apci=off" in your boot-time kernel parameters (add it to your bootloader configuration, or edit that line during bootup) and see if the behavior goes away.

If it goes away, then fine. If you want to get ACPI support try upgrading your kernel to the newest version avaible at kernel.org. Or install the kernel from Sid.

If passing apci=off disables the bug that crashes your computer I'd try to make a custom kernel from the newest sources.
this has the "Debian way" of doing it.

Following those directions will produce a kernel package that you can install. Or you can just do it the old fasion way of doing the kernel install (make clean, make menuconfig, make etc etc) and that will work fine.

If that doesn't work, then I don't know. Take a look at http://acpi.sourceforge.net/
 
Originally posted by: drag
You can try to see if you can find a update for your BIOS.

try disabling acpi thru passing "apci=off" in your boot-time kernel parameters (add it to your bootloader configuration, or edit that line during bootup) and see if the behavior goes away.

If it goes away, then fine. If you want to get ACPI support try upgrading your kernel to the newest version avaible at kernel.org. Or install the kernel from Sid.

If passing apci=off disables the bug that crashes your computer I'd try to make a custom kernel from the newest sources.
this has the "Debian way" of doing it.

Following those directions will produce a kernel package that you can install. Or you can just do it the old fasion way of doing the kernel install (make clean, make menuconfig, make etc etc) and that will work fine.

If that doesn't work, then I don't know. Take a look at http://acpi.sourceforge.net/
Click to expand...

drag, I did try disabling acpi already ... sorry if i didnt make that clear ... it did not help. I edited the line at boottime.
I'll try to find a new BIOS next.

 
Can you go into the BIOS and disable power management support from there?

You can try disabling APIC, which causes issues sometimes. It's not anything to do with power management, but it deals with hardware interrupts and such. To turn it off you pass noapic as a boot-time kernel parameter.

I'd still try to get a newer kernel built. It could of been a known bug that got fixed by now.
 
I tried using the noapic flag on boot, but I still get the following message in my dmesg :

Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 acpi=off apm=off noapic ro
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!

Going to try and build a kernel next using the document you linked
 
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