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FSX

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Registered: 2009-08-06

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Toshiba Satellite L650D-10J - can only boot with acpi=off

I just bought this laptop and I need it for school soon, but I have some problems.

First, I can only boot with acpi=off. I'm not sure, but I think that isn't good. It also only sees only one core instead of 2.

When I start X it starts pretty slow, but it works (with Openbox). When I close Openbox, X stays alive and doesn't shutdown. I just see the X mouse cursor and a black background. I have to go to a console and do killall X and then the process it stopped.

The specs are similar to this laptop: http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/ … hop/false/

jeffreyldavidson

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Registered: 2008-09-05

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Re: Toshiba Satellite L650D-10J - can only boot with acpi=off

Yep, it's a Toshiba thing. I have a L505 but I use acpi=ht all four processor cores run with this parameter. I though there would be a fix for this in kernel 2.35 but still the same so I guess not for now. If you come across any other fix please post.

FSX

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Registered: 2009-08-06

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Re: Toshiba Satellite L650D-10J - can only boot with acpi=off

Unfortunatly acpi=ht doesn't work here. I also read that the 2.6.35 kernel would have a fix for this, but it doesn't seem to work here.

I also mailed to the linux-acpi mailinglist: http://marc.info/?t=128301853000002&r=1&w=2

Maybe offtopic, but is there a chance that other OS' don't have this problem (except Windows)?

Last edited by FSX (2010-08-29 13:30:12)

jeffreyldavidson

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Re: Toshiba Satellite L650D-10J - can only boot with acpi=off

You have to be careful how acpi=ht is inserted. I have placed it before ro but make sure there are not extra spaces in the grub line.

FSX

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Re: Toshiba Satellite L650D-10J - can only boot with acpi=off

Didn't work.

Skyalmian

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Registered: 2009-06-28

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Re: Toshiba Satellite L650D-10J - can only boot with acpi=off

Better file a bug, then...
I had, and it was fixed...

FSX

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Registered: 2009-08-06

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Re: Toshiba Satellite L650D-10J - can only boot with acpi=off

With acpi=copy_dsdt everything seems to work.

The only problem left is that X starts slowly and doesn't shutdown when I exit Openbox, but that's has probably to do with the video driver.

Edit: Nevermind the last problem. It was a typo in a config file.......

Last edited by FSX (2010-08-30 16:03:18)