On Thursday 14 July 2005 18:36, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > On my x86-64 laptop (Targa Visionary 811: Athlon64 + VIA chipset, > Arima OEM:d HW also sold by eMachines and others), ACPI is broken > and hangs the x86-64 2.6.13-rc3 kernel. > > During boot, ACPI reduces the screen's brightness (it's always > done this in the x86-64 kernels but not the i386 ones), so I > have to press a specific key combination (Fn+F8) to increase the > brightness. This worked up to and including the 2.6.13-rc2 kernel, > but with 2.6.13-rc3 it causes an error message: > > acpi_ec-0217 [04] acpi_ec_leave_burst_mo: ------->status fail This message is a warning.
> > on the console, and then the machine is hung hard. If you didn't press that key, the machine still hung? > > With the i386 kernel, both this key combination and the other one > for reducing the brightness work as expected. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
