Bug#333831: Etch Installer (pre-release) triggers bug #333831 on specific hardware

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:33:02PM +0000, Simon Waters wrote:
> The daily build of the Etch installer 20070227(?), and the Etch
> Installer RC1, both tickle the problem reported in Debian bug 333831.
> 
> Despite discussions with upstream, which suggested this issue might have
> been fixed in 2.6.18, the 2.6.18-4 kernel in the Debian-Installer
> tickles this problem on the Acer Travelmate 200DX.
> 
> Simplest workaround is to boot with the kernel option "acpi=off".
> 
> In the Debian Installer this means typing;
> 
> linux acpi=off
> 
> Indicators of this problem include various stack dumps in the kernel
> output during boot, and;
> 
> ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
> hdc: lost interrupt
> 
> Obviously some hardware will have other device names (hdd etc).
> 
> I have looked at hacking the ACPI assembly code to fix the issue, but
> even if this worked the resulting assembler would be copyright of Acer
> (or their software suppliers) and impossible to validate (i.e. might fry
> peoples hardware), and upstream seem less than 100% certain that this is
> a problem with the ACPI code on the laptop.

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

If you're running Etch, could you try to reproduce this bug
with the 2.6.24 based kernel added in 4.0r4?
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.24.html

Cheers,
        Moritz