ryandball
August 17th, 2009, 02:24 PM
All,
I have been trying to resolve the APIC / Nvidia compatibility bug to no avail. We have many servers that run Ubuntu, but this particular one is a fairly powerful desktop machine that I'm hoping to put into production as a fax server. However, anytime I stress is more than just a little, it turns itself off.
Hardware:
Motherboard: ASUS M3N78 Pro (Nvidia Geforce 8300)
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+
RAM: 4 GB
OS:
Ubuntu 9.04 AMD64 (server install)
Kernel 2.6.28-11-server
Now I've run into this in the past, and it seemed I got it to work at some point, but I cannot here. I cannot disable APIC in the BIOS (option is enabled and grayed out), I am running the latest BIOS from ASUS' website.
No matter what I try, I get this booting up:
Your BIOS does not provide ACPI _PSS objects in a way that Linux understands.
Once I see that, I know it's going to fail sooner or later.
The thing that really kills it is trying to start up a VM or trying to recompile the kernel; I had heard that possibly 2.6.30 would support the chipset natively. But it always shuts off at some point during either process (loading a vm or running 'make' on the kernel recompile).
In /boot/grub/menu.lst I've tried every combination of 'noapic', 'acpi=off', 'lacpi=off', everything I can find in any combination, and it's like it just ignores me. System works fine unless I stress it just a little, then it shuts off.
Any ideas??? I'd rather not scrap the hardware just because of this little thing if possible - new server hardware isn't in the budget right now, unfortunately. I don't care about ANY power features, it's supposed to be a server so I would want it all disabled if possible.
current command line: root=/dev/mapper/hylafax-root ro acpi=off noapic quiet splash live
Thanks in advance!
Ryan from Portland
I have been trying to resolve the APIC / Nvidia compatibility bug to no avail. We have many servers that run Ubuntu, but this particular one is a fairly powerful desktop machine that I'm hoping to put into production as a fax server. However, anytime I stress is more than just a little, it turns itself off.
Hardware:
Motherboard: ASUS M3N78 Pro (Nvidia Geforce 8300)
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+
RAM: 4 GB
OS:
Ubuntu 9.04 AMD64 (server install)
Kernel 2.6.28-11-server
Now I've run into this in the past, and it seemed I got it to work at some point, but I cannot here. I cannot disable APIC in the BIOS (option is enabled and grayed out), I am running the latest BIOS from ASUS' website.
No matter what I try, I get this booting up:
Your BIOS does not provide ACPI _PSS objects in a way that Linux understands.
Once I see that, I know it's going to fail sooner or later.
The thing that really kills it is trying to start up a VM or trying to recompile the kernel; I had heard that possibly 2.6.30 would support the chipset natively. But it always shuts off at some point during either process (loading a vm or running 'make' on the kernel recompile).
In /boot/grub/menu.lst I've tried every combination of 'noapic', 'acpi=off', 'lacpi=off', everything I can find in any combination, and it's like it just ignores me. System works fine unless I stress it just a little, then it shuts off.
Any ideas??? I'd rather not scrap the hardware just because of this little thing if possible - new server hardware isn't in the budget right now, unfortunately. I don't care about ANY power features, it's supposed to be a server so I would want it all disabled if possible.
current command line: root=/dev/mapper/hylafax-root ro acpi=off noapic quiet splash live
Thanks in advance!
Ryan from Portland