Ubuntu 10.10 live-usb won't boot unless selected option "noacpi" on Asus X71 laptop

[Chereji Mihai]

Binary package hint: acpi

Don't know what else to say. The laptop boots fine if the ""noacpi" option is selected, but it's pretty much a show stopper. (shutdown, suspend, special keys don't work)

http://www.linlap.com/wiki/asus+x71sl Here are the laptop specs.

[Ramon Villalonga Gómez (ramonvillalongagomez)]

I think its a problem of the kernel because, if I upgrade Ubuntu 10.04 to Ubuntu 10.10, when i select the kernel of the 10.04 version it works. Ubuntu 11.04 doesn't work too.

[Chereji Mihai (croncobaurul)]

On 03/10/2011 03:37 PM, Ramon Villalonga Gómez wrote:
> I think its a problem of the kernel because, if I upgrade Ubuntu 10.04
> to Ubuntu 10.10, when i select the kernel of the 10.04 version it works.
> Ubuntu 11.04 doesn't work too.
>
Yes, it is clearly a bug of the kernel. I've investigated the bug
further, and found that the latest kernel that will work is 2.6.35 RC1.
RC2 gives the same error.

  I've started doing a git bisect of Linus's git kernel repo, but
somewhere along the way I've done something stupid because I could not
find where the bug originates. Will try again, when I have more time
(compiling 10-20 kernels takes time :) ).

[Chereji Mihai (croncobaurul)]

On 03/10/2011 03:37 PM, Ramon Villalonga Gómez wrote:
> I think its a problem of the kernel because, if I upgrade Ubuntu 10.04
> to Ubuntu 10.10, when i select the kernel of the 10.04 version it works.
> Ubuntu 11.04 doesn't work too.
>
@Ramon, what laptop/ motherboard/processor do you have?

[Ramon Villalonga Gómez (ramonvillalongagomez)]

@Chereji Asus X71-SL Series

http://www.laptopreviewsonline.com/Asus/X71SL/

If you need help for trying something ask me and i will help you gratefully.

Thanks!

[Chereji Mihai (croncobaurul)]

On 03/13/2011 02:16 PM, Ramon Villalonga Gómez wrote:
> @Chereji Asus X71-SL Series
>
> http://www.laptopreviewsonline.com/Asus/X71SL/
>
> If you need help for trying something ask me and i will help you
> gratefully.
>
> Thanks!
>
I have the exact same model. Is the processor in it the Dual Core T3200?
I couldn't find information about this model having problems with Linux
(newer versions of the kernel at least) anywhere on the Internet.
Perhaps we can find someway to make this work.

[Chereji Mihai (croncobaurul)]

On 03/13/2011 02:16 PM, Ramon Villalonga Gómez wrote:
> @Chereji Asus X71-SL Series
>
> http://www.laptopreviewsonline.com/Asus/X71SL/
>
> If you need help for trying something ask me and i will help you
> gratefully.
>
> Thanks!
>
Pardon, the T3400 processor model.

I also started a new bug here https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/689796 but
it was never resolved. There is some more info there, though.

[Ramon Villalonga Gómez (ramonvillalongagomez)]

My processor model is (from lshw) :

product: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7350 @ 2.00GHz

[Chereji Mihai (croncobaurul)]

On 03/13/2011 09:49 PM, Ramon Villalonga Gómez wrote:
> My processor model is (from lshw) :
>
> product: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7350 @ 2.00GHz
>
Ok, this means this is a problem with the motherboard most likely. We'll
have to search for issues with the motherboard chipset (sis 671mx iirc)
and see if we can find anything. Probably we should report this on
kernel.org as well, as this happens in the default kernel, without
ubuntu modifications.

[Chereji Mihai (croncobaurul)]

On 03/13/2011 09:49 PM, Ramon Villalonga Gómez wrote:
> My processor model is (from lshw) :
>
> product: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7350 @ 2.00GHz
>
It seems I forgot about this bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+source/linux/+bug/626622

I found it while searching for bugs relating to our chipset and kernel
version 2.6.35. I think this is the way to go on reporting further
development, as it has already been triaged and marked as high priority.

[Ramon Villalonga Gómez (ramonvillalongagomez)]

Have you solved the problem?

Have you installed any version after 10.04?

I have installed the alpha of the 11.04 and i can't run it. I entered as root from my partition with 10.04 and tried "sudo apt-get autoremove acpi", but this packaged isn't installed. So, the problem isn't here.

What do you think?

[Chereji Mihai (croncobaurul)]

On 03/15/2011 09:51 PM, Ramon Villalonga Gómez wrote:
> Have you solved the problem?
>
> Have you installed any version after 10.04?
>
> I have installed the alpha of the 11.04 and i can't run it. I entered as
> root from my partition with 10.04 and tried "sudo apt-get autoremove
> acpi", but this packaged isn't installed. So, the problem isn't here.
>
> What do you think?
>
Whoa, don't uninstall acpi, that's really important. First of all, check
to see if the computer will boot with the option nolapic instead of
noacpi. You should also check out the bug I linked to earlier, it
received more attention than this one, and it seems this one may be a
duplicate I forgot to link to. I believe it is better if we pool our
efforts there.

[noone nodead (noonenodead)]

try to boot with "pci=nomsi" this fix for me