Comment 2 for bug 55416

Pappan wrote:
> Can you add "acpi=off" to boot parameters and check whether the problem
> occurs ?
>
>
Hi - Sorry for delay - had to wait until lunchtime before I could boot
the people off the PCs and re-kick them :-)
(I have 4 of these PCs in production, all with the same problems).

zls@gl0:~$ dmesg | grep ailed
[ 68.046653] PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@88000000
for 0000:01:00.0
[ 68.046893] PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@90000000
for 0000:02:00.0
[ 81.390581] nvidia: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -1
[ 81.390631] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 1 device(s).
[ 84.349619] cdrom: open failed.
[ 100.305005] ide: failed opcode was: 0xec
(Note xorg.conf only enable 1 VGA card - NOT multiseat, even though the
2nd VGA card is in the slot)

Also - from /var/log/kern.log

Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [17179569.184000] Intel MultiProcessor
Specification v1.4
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [17179569.184000] Virtual Wire
compatibility mode.
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [17179569.184000] OEM ID: Product
ID: APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [17179569.184000] Processor #0 15:6
APIC version 20
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [17179569.184000] Enabling APIC mode:
Flat. Using 0 I/O APICs
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [17179569.184000] BIOS bug, no
explicit IRQ entries, using default mptable. (tell your hw vendor)
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [17179569.184000] Processors: 1
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [17179569.184000] Allocating PCI
resources starting at 80000000 (gap: 7ff00000:80100000)
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [17179569.184000] Built 1 zonelists
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [17179569.184000] Kernel command line:
root=/dev/sda2 ro acpi=off expert
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [17179569.184000] mapped APIC to
ffffd000 (fee00000)

**** then further down in the logfile *****

Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.042150] pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.042195] PnPBIOS: Scanning
system for PnP BIOS support...
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.042728] PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS
installation structure at 0xc00fe0e0
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.042781] PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS
version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xb82f, dseg 0x400
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.042945] PnPBIOS: 2 nodes
reported by PnP BIOS; 2 recorded by driver
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.043002] PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.043048] PCI: Probing PCI
hardware (bus 00)
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.043785] PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of
IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.044043] Boot video device is
0000:01:00.0
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.044891] PCI: Transparent bridge
- 0000:00:1e.0
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.046653] PCI: Failed to allocate
mem resource #6:20000@88000000 for 0000:01:00.0
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.046712] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.046755] IO window: disabled.
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.046800] MEM window:
98000000-9cffffff
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.046845] PREFETCH window:
80000000-87ffffff
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.046893] PCI: Failed to allocate
mem resource #6:20000@90000000 for 0000:02:00.0
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.046950] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:03.0
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.046993] IO window: disabled.
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.047038] MEM window:
90000000-94ffffff
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.047083] PREFETCH window:
88000000-8fffffff
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.047130] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.0
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.047172] IO window: disabled.
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.047218] MEM window: disabled.
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.047262] PREFETCH window:
disabled.
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.047308] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.4
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.047351] IO window: disabled.
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.047396] MEM window: disabled.
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.047441] PREFETCH window:
disabled.
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.047487] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.5
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.047532] IO window: 2000-2fff
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.047578] MEM window:
9d100000-9d1fffff
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.047623] PREFETCH window:
disabled.
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.047671] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.047715] IO window: 1000-1fff
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.047761] MEM window:
9d000000-9d0fffff
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.047807] PREFETCH window:
95000000-950fffff
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.047863] PCI: No IRQ known for
interrupt pin A of device 0000:00:01.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.047925] PCI: Setting latency
timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.047936] PCI: No IRQ known for
interrupt pin A of device 0000:00:03.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.047997] PCI: Setting latency
timer of device 0000:00:03.0 to 64
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.048032] PCI: No IRQ known for
interrupt pin A of device 0000:00:1c.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.048094] PCI: Setting latency
timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.048113] PCI: No IRQ known for
interrupt pin A of device 0000:00:1c.4. Please try using pci=biosirq.
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.048175] PCI: Setting latency
timer of device 0000:00:1c.4 to 64
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.048194] PCI: No IRQ known for
interrupt pin B of device 0000:00:1c.5. Please try using pci=biosirq.
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.048256] PCI: Setting latency
timer of device 0000:00:1c.5 to 64
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.048268] PCI: Setting latency
timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.048772] audit: initializing
netlink socket (disabled)
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.048822]
audit(1154958072.316:1): initialized
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.048912] highmem bounce pool
size: 64 pages
Aug 7 13:41:40 localhost kernel: [ 68.049009] VFS: Disk quotas
dquot_6.5.1

Thanks for the interest,
Zoltan

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