Bug 251744
| Summary: | Thousands of "ACPI Error (evgpe-0711)..." when external display device is connected to SVGA out port | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | David Shrader <icdragn> | ||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | 8 | CC: | acpi-bugzilla, jonstanley, mishu, robert.moore, rui.zhang | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | 2.6.24.3-50.fc8 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2008-03-26 17:15:10 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 427887 | ||||||
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Description
David Shrader
2007-08-10 20:00:25 UTC
(This is a mass-update to all current FC6 kernel bugs in NEW state) Hello, I'm reviewing this bug list as part of the kernel bug triage project, an attempt to isolate current bugs in the Fedora kernel. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelBugTriage I am CC'ing myself to this bug, however this version of Fedora is no longer maintained. Please attempt to reproduce this bug with a current version of Fedora (presently Fedora 8). If the bug no longer exists, please close the bug or I'll do so in a few days if there is no further information lodged. Thanks for using Fedora! Unfortunately, Fedora is not currently installed on the computr at this time. I have a new computer that I use Fedora 8 on right now, and my wife uses the computer in question. I am more than willing to try Fedora 8 on this laptop. If I use the Live CD, will this provide a suitable testing environment? Meaning, if I boot the laptop with the Live CD and plug in an external monitor, would the results of this be the same as if I had installed Fedora 8 to the hard drive? I'm just worried about installing Fedora 8 to the hard drive as it won't be permanent, and I'm not sure how to take care of the boot sequence if I remove the Fedora partitions (my wife is not ok with me wiping the computer and putting her stuff back on later right now!). So, if the LiveCD will provide adequate testing, I can easily do that. Thank you, David This bug still exists in Fedora 8. Whenever an external video output device is connected to the SVGA port, I still get the same errors: [root@localhost david]# tail /var/log/messages Mar 6 17:48:00 localhost kernel: <): No handler or method for GPE[17], disabling event [200701): No handler or method for GPE[17], disabling event [200701): No handler or method for GPE[17], disabling e): No handler or method for GPE[17], disabling event): No handler or method for GPE[17], disabling event [20070126]): No handler or method for GPE[17], disabling): No handler or method for GPE[17], disabling eve): No handler or method for GPE[17], disabling eve): No handler or method for GPE[17], disabling): No handler or method for GPE[17], disabling event [20): No handler or method for GPE[17], disabling event ): No handler or method for GPE[17], disabling event [20070126] Mar 6 17:48:00 localhost kernel: ): No handler I have changed the status of this bug to urgent because the user of this laptop doesn't want to use Linux. I only have a limited amount of time to troubleshoot Fedora. If you don't feel that this type of bug warrants immediate action, and there are more pressing issues, please let me know, and I will close the bug report. Thank you, David Have you made sure you have the latest BIOS update installed? Created attachment 297134 [details]
patch: disable stray GPE properly
Please apply this patch to 2.6.25-rc kernel and see if it helps. :)
My BIOS is updated (at least as far as I am able to find!). I've currently got kernel 2.6.24.3, which seems to be the limit of yum. Does this mean you would like me to install 2.6.25-rc and see if that works? If it doesn't, patch it, and try again? Now, I've never installed a kernel manually, but am more than willing to do it. I have found the following: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel I imagine the process is similar except that I won't have an rpm of the source. How do I get the 2.6.25-rc kernel source (I've looked on www.kernel.org, but am not sure how to use the files there)? Thanks, David The easiest way would be to skip all the rpm stuff and just build/install a kernel by hand. quick howto: as root: $ yum install git then as user: $ git clone git://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git $ cd linux-2.6 (Save the patch in comment 5 as 'gpe.patch' in this dir) $ cat gpe.patch | patch -p1 $ wget http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/junk/kernel-2.6.25-i686.config (this is a config from rawhide that I just generated) $ mv kernel-2.6.25-i686.config .config $ make oldconfig $ make bzImage $ make modules $ su - (become root) $ make modules_install $ make install And now you should see a new option in grub when you reboot. I think that should be all you need. I had a problem with the git clone command. It told me the connection was refused. I tried replacing git:// with http://, and it is now downloading. Is this correct, or did I somehow mess up the original command and am now getting stuff I don't need? Thanks, David ah yes. my bad. http is fine. I meant to type git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git but http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git will get you exactly the same bits but over a different transport. I got the new kernel installed (hopefully correctly), and the patch worked. I can now plug in an external monitor with acpi enabled and not have those error messages being thrown. Thank you all for the help! I learned a lot. Let me know if you need any other information from me, and I'll gladly get it to you. Do I close the report or will who the report is assigned to take care of all those details? Thanks again! You all are great! David Thanks for your help in debugging this. We'll get it into an official Fedora update kernel soon. Hopefully Intel will get this upstream soon too. Bob, The patch to fix the stray GPE problem which is already upstream now doesn't work. We still need the incremental patch in comment #5. Fixed in 2.6.24.3-24.fc8 patch in comment #5 applied to upstream acpi tree (In reply to comment #14) > patch in comment #5 applied to upstream acpi tree That patch causes problems for other users. See bug 436959. Looks like we also need commit a7f9b1f24974da287771e2d70b30d9ca7bd66684 before this fix will work. (a7f9b1f24974da287771e2d70b30d9ca7bd66684 is needed in 2.6.24) commit a7f9b1f24974da287771e2d70b30d9ca7bd66684 plus the patch from comment #5 added to kernel 2.6.24.3-46 David Shrader , can you confirm that the new kernel work for you? We have confirmed that with both patches applied battery status is still okay, anyway. kernel-2.6.24.3-50.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8 kernel-2.6.24.3-50.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update kernel'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-2630 kernel-2.6.24.3-50.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |