Re: Problems with Lenny AMD64 on Acer TravelMate 3043

[Florian Reitmeir <florian@reitmeir.org>]

On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, James Brown wrote:

> I have an Acer notebook TravelMate 3043WTMi CPU Core 2 Duo 1,6 GHz 4,0
> GB RAM
> I have installed the Lenny AMD64 on it in addition to earlier installed
> Windows XP.
> When I try to boot Lenny AMD64 I cannot do it becouse the grub tell me
> the follows:
>
> [ 16.1313901] tg3 Flow control is off for TX and off for RX
> [ 16.738256] ACPI : EC : non-query interrupt received, switching to
> interrupt mode
> [ 16.738256] ACPI : EC : non-query interrupt received, switching to
> interrupt mode
> [ 17.245665] ACPI: EC : missing confirmations, switch off interrupt mode

this is not a grub bug, its an kernel bug

there are two simple options to go:
   - get a bios upgrade
   - get a kernel upgrade, v2.6.28 should have solved the problem

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Florian Reitmeir