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acpi on Asus M2N-E

acpi on Asus M2N-E
Sun, 03 Feb 2008 08:47:00 -050
I hope this is where I should post this:

I have just recently installed eCS 2.0 RC4 on a computer with an ASUS 
M2N-E mobo with BIOS 12.02. It runs reasonably well in non-SMP mode. But 
I cannot get full use of the dual processors nor of ACPI.

When I boot with /smp /apic switches on acpi.psd, the system stops boot 
after OS2ASPI.DMD is installed. If I rem out that base driver the system 
stops booting as OS2SCSI.DMD, which is loaded just before OS2ASPI.DMD. 
So I assume that the problem is with the next driver. That driver, as 
far as I can see, is UNICODE.SYS. (Could this cause a problem?!)

The devices in the system are all built into the motherboard except:
	Soundblaster Live 5.1 (the built in AC97 device is disabled)
         Adaptec 2490 UW scsI adapter
	Saphire X1650 (ATI) video card

I am using an old adaptec driver,(2002), the latest SB driver I can 
find, and the Panorama VESA driver.

I have tried the acpi drivers that came with the RC4 install disk and 
the latest acpi drivers from the mensys site. I have tried the acpi.cfg 
directives
	REMAP 17 TO 11 	(for the adaptec driver)
	REMAP 18 TO 5	(for the sb driver)

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Re: acpi on Asus M2N-E
Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:44:48 -050
Allan wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 13:47:00 UTC, Paul <pminottawa@yahoo.ca> wrote: 
> 
>> I hope this is where I should post this:
>>
>> I have just recently installed eCS 2.0 RC4 on a computer with an ASUS 
>> M2N-E mobo with BIOS 12.02. It runs reasonably well in non-SMP mode.
But 
>> I cannot get full use of the dual processors nor of ACPI.
>>
>> When I boot with /smp /apic switches on acpi.psd, the system stops boot

>> after OS2ASPI.DMD is installed. If I rem out that base driver the
system 
>> stops booting as OS2SCSI.DMD, which is loaded just before OS2ASPI.DMD.

>> So I assume that the problem is with the next driver. That driver, as 
>> far as I can see, is UNICODE.SYS. (Could this cause a problem?!)
> 
> Naa, problem is that those dmd drvier and others loaded before, gets
> initialized by the system at this point, and most likely there is a problem
with
> apic here.
> 
> try /pic instead, and see if that helps.
> 
>> The devices in the system are all built into the motherboard except:
>> 	Soundblaster Live 5.1 (the built in AC97 device is disabled)
>>          Adaptec 2490 UW scsI adapter
>> 	Saphire X1650 (ATI) video card
>>
>> I am using an old adaptec driver,(2002), the latest SB driver I can 
>> find, and the Panorama VESA driver.
>>
>> I have tried the acpi drivers that came with the RC4 install disk and 
>> the latest acpi drivers from the mensys site. I have tried the acpi.cfg

>> directives
>> 	REMAP 17 TO 11 	(for the adaptec driver)
>> 	REMAP 18 TO 5	(for the sb driver)
> 
> This should work, if the adaptec driver is the problem.
>  
>> I am not sure what other information would be needed. Any help out
there?
> 
> Other switches might be needed for your specific hardware (MoBo).
> Read the ACPI (SMP) doc files, and see if any of the switches matches your
> hardware.
> 
> If non of that helps, get the info collector package from betazone,
> open a ticket at the ACPI bugtracker, and attach the log files (zip)
> to it.
> ACPI bugtracker: http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/report/1
> (login first, using guest/netlabs)
> 
Thanks for the reply

The system works with the /pic switch...that is the default anyway. The 
problem with that switch is that, at least on nVidia equipped boards, I 
don't get to take advantage of the dual processor.

I believe I have already tried the switches suggested in the 
documentation, with the exception of all the possible combinations of 
the /DV:?? switch: I don't know what to look for with respect to Dummy 
Vectors and the AMD CPU and there seems to be a  very very large number 
of combinations.

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Re: acpi on Asus M2N-E
Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:23:15 -050
Allan wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 13:47:00 UTC, Paul <pminottawa@yahoo.ca> wrote: 
> 
>> I hope this is where I should post this:
>>
>> I have just recently installed eCS 2.0 RC4 on a computer with an ASUS 
>> M2N-E mobo with BIOS 12.02. It runs reasonably well in non-SMP mode.
But 
>> I cannot get full use of the dual processors nor of ACPI.
>>
>> When I boot with /smp /apic switches on acpi.psd, the system stops boot

>> after OS2ASPI.DMD is installed. If I rem out that base driver the
system 
>> stops booting as OS2SCSI.DMD, which is loaded just before OS2ASPI.DMD.

>> So I assume that the problem is with the next driver. That driver, as 
>> far as I can see, is UNICODE.SYS. (Could this cause a problem?!)
> 
> Naa, problem is that those dmd drvier and others loaded before, gets
> initialized by the system at this point, and most likely there is a problem
with
> apic here.
> 
> try /pic instead, and see if that helps.
> 
>> The devices in the system are all built into the motherboard except:
>> 	Soundblaster Live 5.1 (the built in AC97 device is disabled)
>>          Adaptec 2490 UW scsI adapter
>> 	Saphire X1650 (ATI) video card
>>
>> I am using an old adaptec driver,(2002), the latest SB driver I can 
>> find, and the Panorama VESA driver.
>>
>> I have tried the acpi drivers that came with the RC4 install disk and 
>> the latest acpi drivers from the mensys site. I have tried the acpi.cfg

>> directives
>> 	REMAP 17 TO 11 	(for the adaptec driver)
>> 	REMAP 18 TO 5	(for the sb driver)
> 
> This should work, if the adaptec driver is the problem.
>  
>> I am not sure what other information would be needed. Any help out
there?
> 
> Other switches might be needed for your specific hardware (MoBo).
> Read the ACPI (SMP) doc files, and see if any of the switches matches your
> hardware.
> 
> If non of that helps, get the info collector package from betazone,
> open a ticket at the ACPI bugtracker, and attach the log files (zip)
> to it.
> ACPI bugtracker: http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/report/1
> (login first, using guest/netlabs)
> 
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Re: acpi on Asus M2N-E
Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:04:55 -050
Allan wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 17:23:15 UTC, Paul <pminottawa@yahoo.ca> wrote: 
> 
>>> ACPI bugtracker: http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/report/1
>>> (login first, using guest/netlabs)
>>>
>> Wouldn't let me open a ticket.
> 
> Just tried, works fine.
> 
Thanks, I just tried it again and this time it worked. Don't know what 
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Re: acpi on Asus M2N-E
Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:34:40 GMT
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 13:47:00 UTC, Paul <pminottawa@yahoo.ca> wrote: 

> I hope this is where I should post this:
> 
> I have just recently installed eCS 2.0 RC4 on a computer with an ASUS 
> M2N-E mobo with BIOS 12.02. It runs reasonably well in non-SMP mode. But 
> I cannot get full use of the dual processors nor of ACPI.
> 
> When I boot with /smp /apic switches on acpi.psd, the system stops boot 
> after OS2ASPI.DMD is installed. If I rem out that base driver the system 
> stops booting as OS2SCSI.DMD, which is loaded just before OS2ASPI.DMD. 
> So I assume that the problem is with the next driver. That driver, as 
> far as I can see, is UNICODE.SYS. (Could this cause a problem?!)

Naa, problem is that those dmd drvier and others loaded before, gets
initialized by the system at this point, and most likely there is a problem
with
apic here.

try /pic instead, and see if that helps.

> The devices in the system are all built into the motherboard except:
> 	Soundblaster Live 5.1 (the built in AC97 device is disabled)
>          Adaptec 2490 UW scsI adapter
> 	Saphire X1650 (ATI) video card
> 
> I am using an old adaptec driver,(2002), the latest SB driver I can 
> find, and the Panorama VESA driver.
> 
> I have tried the acpi drivers that came with the RC4 install disk and 
> the latest acpi drivers from the mensys site. I have tried the acpi.cfg 
> directives
> 	REMAP 17 TO 11 	(for the adaptec driver)
> 	REMAP 18 TO 5	(for the sb driver)

This should work, if the adaptec driver is the problem.
 
> I am not sure what other information would be needed. Any help out there?

Other switches might be needed for your specific hardware (MoBo).
Read the ACPI (SMP) doc files, and see if any of the switches matches your
hardware.

If non of that helps, get the info collector package from betazone,
open a ticket at the ACPI bugtracker, and attach the log files (zip)
to it.
ACPI bugtracker: http://svn.netlabs.org/acpi/report/1
(login first, using guest/netlabs)

-- 
  Allan.

It is better to close your mouth, and look like a fool,
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