Re: 2.6.21-mm2: ACPI exception on resume

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sat, 19 May 2007, Matt Mackall wrote:
> usually does, then go black and the machine will become totally
> unresponsive, even to holding down the power button for 30+ seconds.

Now, that means either the BIOS or EC have been thrown out of whack,
otherwise one of the two would have force-powered-off the machine a bit
after 10s.

Are you using the latest BIOS and EC firmware available?

If you are at the latest BIOS and EC releases, does ec_intr=0 fix the issue?

> 08:57:27 [drm] Loading R200 Microcode
> 08:57:27 ACPI: EC: acpi_ec_wait timeout, status = 10, expect_event = 2
> 08:57:27 ACPI: EC: input buffer is not empty, aborting transaction
> 08:57:28 ACPI: EC: acpi_ec_wait timeout, status = 10, expect_event = 2

Yep, EC is confused.  Not Good!

-- 
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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
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  Henrique Holschuh
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