Bug#402426: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686: something to do with ACPI
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-4-686
Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12
Followup-For: Bug #402426
After some more fiddling around I remembered that the board's (Asus
P5B-VM DO) BIOS has an option to set the 'ACPI version' to either of
'ACPI1.0', 'ACPI2.0' and 'ACPI3.0'.
With the first setting (and only the first one) speedstep-centrino
loads and seems to work.
Judging from my googling over the last two hours this affects a lot of
people (especially after BIOS updates) and not all of them will be so
lucky as to have a workaround in BIOS setup.
I don't know if all these BIOSs are buggy or if the kernel is missing
support for the ACPI flavor that currenty en-vogue ... but if there's
any way I can help, you have my e-mail. Feel free to pass it upstream.
Regards,
C.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 depends on:
ii coreutils 5.97-5.3 The GNU core utilities
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.87b tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre4-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-4-686 recommends:
ii libc6-i686 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i
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