Bug 465294

Well, well, well.

Now I know that I'm not alone in the GPE storm.

I have no idea what it is.

But I'm not so lucky to see those messages in the /var/log/messages file.

Here is my notebook config and, below, the few messages I get.
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Notebook: Philips 13NB8504/78 
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Philips 13NB8504/78 - Only available in Brasil
http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/dcbint/cpindex.pl?scy=BR&slg=BRP&cat=CA00304_CA&sct=SU00331_SU&session=20081006201907_201.17.109.195&grp=PC_PRODUCTS_GR&ctn=13NB8504/78&mid=Link_ProductInformation&hlt=Link_ProductInformation

It's an OEM version of the Twinhead J13S Series
http://www.twinhead.com.tw/product_notebook/J13S.asp

Model: Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 (4MB L2 Cache) / 2GB RAM
Videocard: Intel® GM965 built-in (Mobile Intel 965 Express chipset family)
Network: Integrated 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet VIA Velocity family Gigabit
Wifi: Intel® Pro/Wireless 3945ABG (802.11a/b/g)
Bluetooth: Yes (CSR Bluetooth Device)
Webcam: 1.3 Mega-pixel (USB2.0 UVC PC Camera)
Touchpad: Synaptics PS/2 port touchpad (It worked fine with Mandriva, and with the from-DVD FC9 installation. After some updates it still points but the pad has no 'two tap' funcition. Not a big problem at all.)
Hotkey (Home, Eject, Suspend ...): Media player quick key (only in Windows)
Display: WXGA TFT LCD screen (1280 x 800)
OS: 32bit Vista Home Preminum (original) / Fedora 9
Kernel: 2.6.25.14-108 - The newers hang on boot!!! -- See below!
Suspend on Disk: Only in Windows
Suspend on RAM: Only in Windows
Comments:
BIOS is AMI v2.061
It works fine with Windows Vista.
I've used Mandriva a few weeks and liked it. Mandriva Live was the only one booting then.
Later tried a Live version of Fedora 9 that was booting so installed FC9. 
It works very good if I do not mess with the latest core versions. I'm stuck with kernel 2.6.25.14-108 because it simply do not boot with any newer one.
The grub does its job, then comes that message

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Booting 'Fedora (2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686)'

Root (hd0.4)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partiotion type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26.5-45-fc9.i686 ro root=UUID=c93e83zz-037d-4806-907d-8311b0437f98 rhgb quiet
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3000, size=0x203c60]
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.26.5-45.fc9.i686.img
[Linux-initrd @ 0x37d58000, 0x29739a bytes]

Decompressing Linux... Paersing ELF... done
Boorting the kernel
ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, disabling EC GPE
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and nothing else happens.
I'm looking for a solution for it. In the meanwhile I'll be with my trustfull core 2.6.25.14-108.

If you know how to deal with such bad behaviour, please let me know.

I've been thinking about a small modification of the kernel boot line. 

Maybe a parameter near the "rhgb quiet" to disable the ACPI and get rid of theis storm.

Hi all,

I've been poking some parameters into the boot command line in grub.

I found one (acpi=off) that makes it boot, but it looses all acpi functions.

I consider it a kind of a dirty job.  It's nonsense to disable acpi in a notebook, which is my case.

In fact, in a very few times, the system boots without that parameter, but I could not identify why it works or not.

In a nutshell, I added the parameter to the grub boot line, and it looks like this:
...  ro acpi-off root=UUID=c93e83zz-037d-4806-907d-8311b0437f98 rhgb quiet

So I believe there is something mistaken in the module that interfaces with the acpi hardware.

I hope it is of any help for anyone who can deal with this issue.

Gil

Same bug on a MSI Wind.

It seems it was solved:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi/+bug/270017

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10724#c142

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 467820 ***