Bug#571761: linux-image-2.6.32-2-686: 2.6.32 required noapic on Acer Travelmate 430 where earlier kernels did not
Package: linux-2.6
Version: 2.6.32-8
Severity: important
With kernels up to 2.6.26 this ancient machine did not require any special kernel boot options, but with 2.6.32
I need to add noapic to the kernel command in grub.
If I do not add noapic the kernel gets as far as the pcmcia socket and gets through that completely, and then hangs
competely - nothing works.
Looking in the 2.6.26 kernel dmesg just after the initialisation of the pcmcia socket there were messages about
ACPI derived interrupts. So I thought trying noapic was worth trying noapic, and now 2.6.32 boots normally.
This suggests that something has changed in the APIC handling for the old chip in the 430, for the worse. Of course
now manual intervention is required to make this machine boot.
-- Package-specific info:
** Version:
Linux version 2.6.32-2-686 (Debian 2.6.32-8) (ben@decadent.org.uk) (gcc version 4.3.4 (Debian 4.3.4-6) ) #1 SMP Thu Feb 11 04:08:42 UTC 2010
** Command line:
root=/dev/hda1 ro noapic
** Not tainted
** Kernel log:
** Model information
not available
** Loaded modules:
Module Size Used by
btrfs 362362 0
zlib_deflate 15822 1 btrfs
crc32c 2172 1
libcrc32c 730 1 btrfs
ufs 55922 0
qnx4 5118 0
hfsplus 60901 0
hfs 32993 0
minix 17778 0
ntfs 163173 0
vfat 6506 0
msdos 5118 0
fat 34776 2 vfat,msdos
jfs 134230 0
xfs 414276 0
exportfs 2586 1 xfs
reiserfs 175508 0
ext4 254301 0
jbd2 55835 1 ext4
ext2 46157 0
fuse 43554 1
radeon 398251 0
ttm 26008 1 radeon
drm_kms_helper 17183 1 radeon
drm 107431 3 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 3497 1 radeon
binfmt_misc 4875 1
sco 5837 2
bridge 32851 0
stp 996 1 bridge
rfcomm 25063 1
bnep 7376 2
l2cap 21677 6 rfcomm,bnep
crc16 1027 2 ext4,l2cap
bluetooth 36259 6 sco,rfcomm,bnep,l2cap
dm_snapshot 17945 0
dm_mirror 9639 0
dm_region_hash 5612 1 dm_mirror
dm_log 6369 2 dm_mirror,dm_region_hash
dm_mod 45878 3 dm_snapshot,dm_mirror,dm_log
mmc_block 6436 0
sr_mod 10770 0
firewire_sbp2 9575 0
ide_generic 801 0 [permanent]
ide_cd_mod 21044 0
cdrom 26487 2 sr_mod,ide_cd_mod
snd_intel8x0 19523 2
snd_intel8x0m 8100 0
snd_ac97_codec 79140 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m
ac97_bus 710 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 28671 0
snd_mixer_oss 10461 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 47362 4 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_midi 3576 0
snd_rawmidi 12505 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 3684 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 35327 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
pcmcia 17442 0
snd_timer 12258 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
usbhid 27756 0
yenta_socket 16403 1
snd_seq_device 3673 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
joydev 6771 0
rfkill 10196 2 bluetooth
led_class 1757 0
rsrc_nonstatic 7057 1 yenta_socket
hostap_pci 34480 0
hid 50593 1 usbhid
snd 34327 15 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
pcmcia_core 20414 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
parport_pc 15799 0
hostap 76764 1 hostap_pci
i2c_i801 6442 0
parport 22554 1 parport_pc
lib80211 2834 2 hostap_pci,hostap
wmi 3575 0
soundcore 3450 1 snd
serio_raw 2916 0
battery 3782 0
ac 1640 0
container 1833 0
evdev 5609 13
rng_core 2178 0
pcspkr 1207 0
i2c_core 12612 4 radeon,drm,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_i801
psmouse 44381 0
snd_page_alloc 4977 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_intel8x0m,snd_pcm
processor 25811 1
shpchp 21220 0
pci_hotplug 18065 1 shpchp
ext3 93828 1
jbd 31965 1 ext3
mbcache 3762 3 ext4,ext2,ext3
ide_gd_mod 17103 3
ide_pci_generic 1924 0
ata_generic 2015 0
libata 114180 1 ata_generic
scsi_mod 101069 3 sr_mod,firewire_sbp2,libata
uhci_hcd 15977 0
8139too 14849 0
firewire_ohci 16477 0
8139cp 13285 0
piix 3564 2
intel_agp 20165 1
wbsd 8614 0
mmc_core 38095 2 mmc_block,wbsd
floppy 40923 0
mii 2714 2 8139too,8139cp
ehci_hcd 27346 0
button 3598 0
firewire_core 31007 2 firewire_sbp2,firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t 1035 1 firewire_core
ide_core 63850 5 ide_generic,ide_cd_mod,ide_gd_mod,ide_pci_generic,piix
usbcore 97930 4 usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
agpgart 19516 3 ttm,drm,intel_agp
nls_base 4541 7 hfsplus,hfs,ntfs,vfat,fat,jfs,usbcore
thermal 9206 0
fan 2586 0
thermal_sys 9378 3 processor,thermal,fan
** PCI devices:
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface [8086:2560] (rev 03)
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE Host-to-AGP Bridge [8086:2561] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 96
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
Memory behind bridge: d0100000-d01fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: d8000000-dfffffff
Secondary status: 66MHz+ FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR-
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:24c2] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:002b]
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 4: I/O ports at 1800 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:24c4] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:002b]
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 9
Region 4: I/O ports at 1820 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:24c7] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:002b]
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 9
Region 4: I/O ports at 1840 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:24cd] (rev 02) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:002b]
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin D routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev 82) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR+ INTx-
Latency: 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=06, sec-latency=32
I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00004fff
Memory behind bridge: d0200000-d02fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f0000000-f00fffff
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR+
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn-
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:24c0] (rev 02)
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle+ MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller [8086:24cb] (rev 02) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:002b]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
Region 1: I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
Region 2: I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
Region 3: I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
Region 4: I/O ports at 1860 [size=16]
Region 5: Memory at 30000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Kernel driver in use: PIIX_IDE
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller [8086:24c3] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:002b]
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 9
Region 4: I/O ports at 1880 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller [8086:24c5] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:002b]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: I/O ports at 1c00 [size=256]
Region 1: I/O ports at 18c0 [size=64]
Region 2: Memory at d0000c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
Region 3: Memory at d0000800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH
00:1f.6 Modem [0703]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller [8086:24c6] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:002b]
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: I/O ports at 2400 [size=256]
Region 1: I/O ports at 2000 [size=128]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: Intel ICH Modem
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500] [1002:4c57] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:002b]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR+ FastB2B+ DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 66 (2000ns min), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: Memory at d8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Region 1: I/O ports at 3000 [size=256]
Region 2: Memory at d0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at d0120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller [1106:3044] (rev 80) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:002b]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 32 (8000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: Memory at d0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Region 1: I/O ports at 4400 [size=128]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci
02:01.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139] (rev 10)
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:002b]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 32 (8000ns min, 16000ns max)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: I/O ports at 4000 [size=256]
Region 1: Memory at d0200800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: 8139too
02:02.0 Network controller [0280]: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset [1260:3873] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset [1260:3873]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 32, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: hostap_pci
02:04.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ601/6912/711E0 CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller [1217:6972]
Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:002b]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 168
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: Memory at d0201000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 34000000-37fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 38000000-3bfff000
I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff
I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- 16bInt+ PostWrite+
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
** USB devices:
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c016 Logitech, Inc. M-UV69a/HP M-UV96 Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.32-2-686 depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.28 Debian configuration management sy
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initr 0.93.4 tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.12~pre1-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii yaird [linux-initramfs-tool] 0.0.13-5 Yet Another mkInitRD
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.32-2-686 recommends:
ii firmware-linux-free 2.6.32-9 Binary firmware for various driver
ii libc6-i686 2.10.2-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.32-2-686 suggests:
ii grub 0.97-59 GRand Unified Bootloader (dummy pa
pn linux-doc-2.6.32 <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.32-2-686 is related to:
pn firmware-bnx2 <none> (no description available)
pn firmware-bnx2x <none> (no description available)
pn firmware-ipw2x00 <none> (no description available)
pn firmware-ivtv <none> (no description available)
pn firmware-iwlwifi <none> (no description available)
pn firmware-linux <none> (no description available)
pn firmware-linux-nonfree <none> (no description available)
pn firmware-qlogic <none> (no description available)
pn firmware-ralink <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information excluded
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