ACPI not usable on Asus M51Ta notebook

[Andreas Grois]

The title nearly sais it all. When booting up, the System freezes with a blank screen, as long as I don't supply the acpi=off boot parameter. Removing the quiet boot-parameter gives a lot of output, yet I'm unable to read it fast enough, before the screen blanks. Looks like a bios bug, yet I'm using the newest bios available, so a workaround would be nice.
Before I forget: Intrepid Alpha 5 didn't work either.

[islevegan (islevegan)]

This may relate to:

"Not booting correctly - ASUS M51TA-X2 w/ ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650"

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi/+bug/274196

[vnd (vndzzz)]

I have the same problem. Is there any plan for fixing this issue? I have this notebook, and I'm able to help testing.

[islevegan (islevegan)]

I haven't seen any resolution to this yet, and we haven't yet found anything
that will work other than Vista.

I have seen some messages suggesting that it would work by disabling acpi
and even some vague messages about how to do that but nothing that is clear
and well defined.

One of the review of this machine on newegg.com suggests that ASUS needs to
address this in a BIOS update. I don't know but I had not imagined that it
would be such a problem to get any open source operating system to work on
it.

Aloha

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 5:28 AM, vnd <email address hidden> wrote:

> I have the same problem. Is there any plan for fixing this issue? I have
> this notebook, and I'm able to help testing.
>
> --
> ACPI not usable on Asus M51Ta notebook
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/273198
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in "acpi" source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> The title nearly sais it all. When booting up, the System freezes with a
> blank screen, as long as I don't supply the acpi=off boot parameter.
> Removing the quiet boot-parameter gives a lot of output, yet I'm unable to
> read it fast enough, before the screen blanks. Looks like a bios bug, yet
> I'm using the newest bios available, so a workaround would be nice.
> Before I forget: Intrepid Alpha 5 didn't work either.
>

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[vnd (vndzzz)]

Yes you are right, but built in linux (asus express gate) works fine. Also I'm not sure if it uses acpi or not. Windows XP also works fine on it, except video drivers. May be it is possible to debug (asus express gate). Solution with "acpi off" works fine, but I'm not sure that it's good for laptop.

[islevegan (islevegan)]

Exactly where does one do "acpi off" and can one make it so this happens
upon every boot so that no special behaviors are required every time a user
boots a machine?

Anybody has very explicit, detailed instructions on the syntax and way to do
this?

Aloha

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 12:46 AM, vnd <email address hidden> wrote:

> Yes you are right, but built in linux (asus express gate) works fine.
> Also I'm not sure if it uses acpi or not. Windows XP also works fine on
> it, except video drivers. May be it is possible to debug (asus express
> gate). Solution with "acpi off" works fine, but I'm not sure that it's
> good for laptop.
>
> --
> ACPI not usable on Asus M51Ta notebook
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/273198
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in "acpi" source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> The title nearly sais it all. When booting up, the System freezes with a
> blank screen, as long as I don't supply the acpi=off boot parameter.
> Removing the quiet boot-parameter gives a lot of output, yet I'm unable to
> read it fast enough, before the screen blanks. Looks like a bios bug, yet
> I'm using the newest bios available, so a workaround would be nice.
> Before I forget: Intrepid Alpha 5 didn't work either.
>

--
If you eat meat..
See for yourself how animals are raised and killed for meat.
www.ChooseVeg.com

[vnd (vndzzz)]

May be solution is somewhere here: http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20081231051217284&board_id=3&model=M51Ta&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

[Andreas Grois (soulsource)]

Fixed in Jaunty

[islevegan (islevegan)]

Excellent, I can report it does work as booted from the 9.04 AMD 64 Desktop
cd. Has anyone tried the proprietary video driver that shows up via System >
Administration > Hardware Drivers...? I'm afraid to try it...is there much
benefit?

Aloha

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Andreas Grois <email address hidden>wrote:

> Fixed in Jaunty
>
> --
> ACPI not usable on Asus M51Ta notebook
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/273198
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “acpi” source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> The title nearly sais it all. When booting up, the System freezes with a
> blank screen, as long as I don't supply the acpi=off boot parameter.
> Removing the quiet boot-parameter gives a lot of output, yet I'm unable to
> read it fast enough, before the screen blanks. Looks like a bios bug, yet
> I'm using the newest bios available, so a workaround would be nice.
> Before I forget: Intrepid Alpha 5 didn't work either.
>

--
If you eat meat..
See for yourself how animals are raised and killed for meat.
www.ChooseVeg.com

[Andreas Grois (soulsource)]

Hi!

Since this isn't directly connected to the bug, I'm sending this per
mail.

I haven't been able to use the proprietary driver (fglrx) yet. After its
installation, X doesn't start. The same happens if I run "aticonfig
--initial" after installation. To get X working again, I had to remove
these drivers. For that I had to start in recovery mode, start the root
console, "apt-get remove xorg-driver-fglrx" and
replace /etc/X11/xorg.conf by the backup created by aticonfig
(/etc/X11/xorg.conf.original-0)...
I don't know if there really is a "benefit" when installing the
fglrx-drivers. The xorg radeon driver (default after Ubuntu
installation) does not yet support accelerated 3D with the HD3XXX, yet
its 2D-support is far superior to the one of fglrx. If you don't need 3D
accelleration (some CAD-programs, games and the Desktop-Effects require
it), I would suggest to stay with the open-source radeon drivers.
3D-support is beeing developed right now and will be available in a few
month.

My xorg.log is attached if that's any help for you.

Another fact that might be of interest for you is how I got sound
working:
First I updated to the newest alsa release
( http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=820959 ). I don't know if
this is necessary, since the update alone didn't do anything. Then I
added

options snd-hda-intel model=m51va

at the end of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf and rebooted.

Andreas

Am Dienstag, den 05.05.2009, 09:23 +0000 schrieb islevegan:
> Excellent, I can report it does work as booted from the 9.04 AMD 64 Desktop
> cd. Has anyone tried the proprietary video driver that shows up via System >
> Administration > Hardware Drivers...? I'm afraid to try it...is there much
> benefit?
>
> Aloha
>
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Andreas Grois
> <email address hidden>wrote:
>
> > Fixed in Jaunty
> >
> > --
> > ACPI not usable on Asus M51Ta notebook
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/273198
> > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> > of the bug.
> >
> > Status in “acpi” source package in Ubuntu: New
> >
> > Bug description:
> > The title nearly sais it all. When booting up, the System freezes with a
> > blank screen, as long as I don't supply the acpi=off boot parameter.
> > Removing the quiet boot-parameter gives a lot of output, yet I'm unable to
> > read it fast enough, before the screen blanks. Looks like a bios bug, yet
> > I'm using the newest bios available, so a workaround would be nice.
> > Before I forget: Intrepid Alpha 5 didn't work either.
> >
>
>
> --
> If you eat meat..
> See for yourself how animals are raised and killed for meat.
> www.ChooseVeg.com
>

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Closing this since Andreas said it was fixed in Jaunty. If it is still an issue with 10.04, change the status back to new.