glandeur
May 29th, 2010, 06:57 PM
Compaq Presario 5660
Intel PII 450mhz
512mb ram
sb live! pci sound
same results with both nvidia and ati cards contemporary to the system
I'm running Lubuntu 10.04 on this old box and so far I love it. The only problem has been a shutdown hang at the splash screen. I've read and followed most of the posts on this topic and tried all of the boot options, etc, but nothing works. I've even tried the latest mainline kernel. I have determined the issue is with ACPI and my motherboard. For whatever reason, acpi=force fails to force ACPI. However, if I use a Promise Ultra66 pci to ide card for my hard drive acpi=force succeeds and the system shuts down properly. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to perform as well overall. Most notably my usb1 transfers slow to a ridiculous pace even for usb1.
Furthermore, I switched the hard drive back to the motherboard and found that forcing acpi works as long as the Promise card is installed, even if nothing is connected to it, but I still had the slow usb transfers.
The bios power management settings for this machine are severely limited (it is the latest bios). There is basically just "power management enable/disable" which doesn't seem to make a difference.
Hopefully some of the information below from the kernel log is helpful, I'm a Linux beginner.
standard boot without IDE card installed:
May 29 12:53:20 compaq kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000e8010 00014 (v00 COMPAQ)
May 29 12:53:20 compaq kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 000e8080 0002C (v01 COMPAQ THUNDER 00000001 00000000)
May 29 12:53:20 compaq kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 000e80cc 00074 (v01 COMPAQ THUNDER 00000001 00000000)
May 29 12:53:20 compaq kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI Warning: Optional field Pm2ControlBlock has zero address or length: 0000000000000000/1 (20090903/tbfadt-557)
May 29 12:53:20 compaq kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 000e8140 00037 (v01 COMPAQ DSDTTBL 00000001 MSFT 01000007)
May 29 12:53:20 compaq kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: FACS 000e8040 00040
May 29 12:53:20 compaq kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 000e8177 02498 (v01 COMPAQ THUNDTBL 00000001 MSFT 01000007)
May 29 12:53:20 compaq kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: BIOS age (1999) fails cutoff (2000), acpi=force is required to enable ACPI
May 29 12:53:20 compaq kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: Disabling ACPI support
acpi=force boot without IDE card installed:
a gazillion of these:
May 29 13:00:30 compaq kernel: [ 0.121655] ACPI Error: Illegal I/O port address/length above 64K: 0x0183ee04/2 (20090903/hwvalid-154)
followed by this:
May 29 13:00:31 compaq kernel: [ 0.153534] ACPI Error: Hardware did not change modes (20090903/hwacpi-144)
May 29 13:00:31 compaq kernel: [ 0.153558] ACPI Error: Could not transition to ACPI mode (20090903/evxfevnt-93)
May 29 13:00:31 compaq kernel: [ 0.153582] ACPI Warning: AcpiEnable failed (20090903/utxface-147)
May 29 13:00:31 compaq kernel: [ 0.153604] ACPI: Unable to enable ACPI
With the ide card installed ACPI loads.
What seems strange to me is that if the motherboard doesn't support ACPI, why would adding a pci card make it do so? Is there something I can do to force ACPI without the pci card? Also when I use ACPI with the card (or without if I can get it working) what can I do to prevent the performance drop especially with usb transfers. Is this a case for a custom kernel or just a hopeless motherboard?
I also had all of these problems with a text only install of 9.10 from the minimal cd.
Thanks in advance
Intel PII 450mhz
512mb ram
sb live! pci sound
same results with both nvidia and ati cards contemporary to the system
I'm running Lubuntu 10.04 on this old box and so far I love it. The only problem has been a shutdown hang at the splash screen. I've read and followed most of the posts on this topic and tried all of the boot options, etc, but nothing works. I've even tried the latest mainline kernel. I have determined the issue is with ACPI and my motherboard. For whatever reason, acpi=force fails to force ACPI. However, if I use a Promise Ultra66 pci to ide card for my hard drive acpi=force succeeds and the system shuts down properly. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to perform as well overall. Most notably my usb1 transfers slow to a ridiculous pace even for usb1.
Furthermore, I switched the hard drive back to the motherboard and found that forcing acpi works as long as the Promise card is installed, even if nothing is connected to it, but I still had the slow usb transfers.
The bios power management settings for this machine are severely limited (it is the latest bios). There is basically just "power management enable/disable" which doesn't seem to make a difference.
Hopefully some of the information below from the kernel log is helpful, I'm a Linux beginner.
standard boot without IDE card installed:
May 29 12:53:20 compaq kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000e8010 00014 (v00 COMPAQ)
May 29 12:53:20 compaq kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 000e8080 0002C (v01 COMPAQ THUNDER 00000001 00000000)
May 29 12:53:20 compaq kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 000e80cc 00074 (v01 COMPAQ THUNDER 00000001 00000000)
May 29 12:53:20 compaq kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI Warning: Optional field Pm2ControlBlock has zero address or length: 0000000000000000/1 (20090903/tbfadt-557)
May 29 12:53:20 compaq kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 000e8140 00037 (v01 COMPAQ DSDTTBL 00000001 MSFT 01000007)
May 29 12:53:20 compaq kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: FACS 000e8040 00040
May 29 12:53:20 compaq kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 000e8177 02498 (v01 COMPAQ THUNDTBL 00000001 MSFT 01000007)
May 29 12:53:20 compaq kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: BIOS age (1999) fails cutoff (2000), acpi=force is required to enable ACPI
May 29 12:53:20 compaq kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: Disabling ACPI support
acpi=force boot without IDE card installed:
a gazillion of these:
May 29 13:00:30 compaq kernel: [ 0.121655] ACPI Error: Illegal I/O port address/length above 64K: 0x0183ee04/2 (20090903/hwvalid-154)
followed by this:
May 29 13:00:31 compaq kernel: [ 0.153534] ACPI Error: Hardware did not change modes (20090903/hwacpi-144)
May 29 13:00:31 compaq kernel: [ 0.153558] ACPI Error: Could not transition to ACPI mode (20090903/evxfevnt-93)
May 29 13:00:31 compaq kernel: [ 0.153582] ACPI Warning: AcpiEnable failed (20090903/utxface-147)
May 29 13:00:31 compaq kernel: [ 0.153604] ACPI: Unable to enable ACPI
With the ide card installed ACPI loads.
What seems strange to me is that if the motherboard doesn't support ACPI, why would adding a pci card make it do so? Is there something I can do to force ACPI without the pci card? Also when I use ACPI with the card (or without if I can get it working) what can I do to prevent the performance drop especially with usb transfers. Is this a case for a custom kernel or just a hopeless motherboard?
I also had all of these problems with a text only install of 9.10 from the minimal cd.
Thanks in advance