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loyx

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 15

Have to push power button to continue to boot

Hey, while my laptop is booting, about a quarter way through i get this message: "ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing", and booting completely stops. It continues after I push the power button. How do I fix this? This is a very recent install by the way,

gothicknight

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2006-04-08

Posts: 219

Re: Have to push power button to continue to boot

You could try noapic to your GRUB kernel configuration (/boot/grub/menu.lst in the kernel line) and if that doesn't work you could try acpi=off

loyx

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 15

Re: Have to push power button to continue to boot

Thanks, that would work, however, I wanted to keep acpi. Is there a way to fix acpi instead of disabling it? I've installed arch linux before and I have never had this problem until I installed the new release.

gothicknight

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2006-04-08

Posts: 219

Re: Have to push power button to continue to boot

You could also try a "fixed" DSDT which it's most likely the reason for your problem.

Seek if you're DSDT is blacklisted near: http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/index.php

Even if you don't found your ACPI recompiled you can read on how to fix it in that URL (not that easy though).

krisvek

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Registered: 2008-04-19

Posts: 20

Re: Have to push power button to continue to boot

gothicknight, that website is a bit out of date and has also been left to the spam bots; the blacklist link fails and the dsdt database is garbage.

loyx - i have the same problem (although pressing the power button doesnt help me for some reason); i've basically settled on waiting for the next kernel patch to fix it, as i've already reported it wherever i could think to
ACPI worked fine for me in 2.6.25

gothicknight

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2006-04-08

Posts: 219

Re: Have to push power button to continue to boot

Sad to ear that.... helped me with my old laptop

semperfiguy

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Registered: 2007-12-03

Posts: 224

Re: Have to push power button to continue to boot

I had the same problem.  try adding nolapic_timer to your boot options.  Worked for me. on a HP Pavilion.

pjjanak

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Registered: 2008-08-17

Posts: 128

Re: Have to push power button to continue to boot

There is a new kernel in testing. Can one brave soul see if the problem is fixed with that one?

frosstatx

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 3

Re: Have to push power button to continue to boot

I back to 2.6.25

pjjanak

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Registered: 2008-08-17

Posts: 128

Re: Have to push power button to continue to boot

I just tested things out with the new kernel (2.6.26.3) and the problems persist.

loyx

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 15

Re: Have to push power button to continue to boot

I just tested things out with the new kernel (2.6.26.3) and the problems persist.

same. I also just tried noapic and that glitches up too. Many other people have the same problem as me in the newest kernels - it worked perfectly fine for me before. don't they test anything before they release it

krisvek

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Registered: 2008-04-19

Posts: 20

Re: Have to push power button to continue to boot

They can't test it with all hardware.  We are the reason bug reporting exists

Anyhow, if it's the same issue I had/have, adding nolapic_timer to the kernel line, like semperfiguy suggested, will let you boot with acpi and nothing noticeable missing.

pjjanak

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Registered: 2008-08-17

Posts: 128

Re: Have to push power button to continue to boot

I booted with nolapic_timer and that did fix the issue of booting, but there were several other problems I ran into. I'm not sure what caused them, but it was either ndiswrapper or the new kernel. Basically I would experience soft lock-ups where I could still type commands into a prompt, but none would run, and Gnome/Nautilus consistently failed to run. For me 2.6.26 seems to be an absolute bust.

loyx

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 15

Re: Have to push power button to continue to boot

very sorry, meant to add that I booted with nolapic_timer and it worked! thanks a lot semperfiguy

chochem

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-03-02

Posts: 176

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Re: Have to push power button to continue to boot

gothicknight, that website is a bit out of date and has also been left to the spam bots; the blacklist link fails and the dsdt database is garbage.

True, and it didn't help me either (though my model was among the ones featured) However, a combination of reading the gentoo wiki and scouring the ubuntu forums (where the amount of people using the same laptop as you is probably a bit closer to critical mass than here) helped me find a dsdt solution.

Or you can just try googling dsdt and your model name...