Hibernate and ACPI issues on FC6

[hadim72]

Hi all!
I have a relatively old Sony Vaio Desktop PCV-RX670 that have been using it with Windows XP Pro and RedHat type Linux since 4 years ago. I have upgraded from RHL9->FC1->FC2->FC5->FC6. All of them have been clean install since I haven't had good luck with the upgrades though Anaconda. Anyway, the specs are as follows:

CPU: Pentium4 1.8 GHZ ACPI compatible
Ram: 512MG
2 Hard disks: 80 GB for windows and 160 GB for FC and storage

I have had problems with Linux detecting the ACPI in my computer. This is important since this computer has a loud power supply fan. and Windows seems not to have any problems in throttling the fan. But I can't get linux to do so. Here is the dmesg (summarized):

Linux version 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 (brewbuilder@hs20-bc2-4.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.1.1 20061011 (Red Hat 4.1.1-30)) #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:37:32 EDT 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fffc000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001fffc000 - 000000001ffff000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ffff000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
511MB LOWMEM available.
Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection
On node 0 totalpages: 131068
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 126972 pages, LIFO batch:31
DMI 2.3 present.
Using APIC driver default
ASUS P4B266 detected: force use of acpi=ht
ACPI: RSDP (v000 ASUS ) @ 0x000f7400
ACPI: RSDT (v001 ASUS P4B266LM 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x1fffc000
ACPI: FADT (v001 ASUS P4B266LM 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x1fffc100
ACPI: BOOT (v001 ASUS P4B266LM 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x1fffc040
ACPI: MADT (v001 ASUS P4B266LM 0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x1fffc080
ACPI: DSDT (v001 ASUS P4B266LM 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xe408
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:1 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 20000000:dec00000)
Detected 1816.219 MHz processor.
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 131068
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
Found and enabled local APIC!
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c07ae000 soft=c078e000
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
.......
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled
CPU: After all inits, caps: 3febf3ff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 12k freed
CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz stepping 02
Total of 1 processors activated (3636.15 BogoMIPS).
Brought up 1 CPUs
....
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf13e0, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
....


As you see it seems to recognize ACPI but at some point it will disable it and when I check for ACPI module in the /proc system I cannot find it.

The other problem that I think has something to do with this is the hibernate and standby functions.
I have never been able to force it to standby but I used to be able to do a normal hibernatein Fc5. Since installing (clean) FC6 the machine copies everything to the disk andstops the hard disks and then halts the system. I have to manually turn the computer off.
The recovery from hibernate is relatively eventless. If the duration of hibernation is short no error messages are shown. If it is longer ( may be more than half a day ) I receive a message the haldaemon failed and needed to be restarted.

Any help would be appreciated.

[kennyshell]

Hi,

I have some troubles as well with this acpi...

Do you deactivate acpi by adding this acpi=ht , as some user recommend?
This would deactivate acpi almost completely (see here http://support.novell.com/techcenter...0/81_acpi.html).

I am asking, because it appears in your print-out above.

See you,
flex

[mwette]

I believe the boot will accept an argument of the form "acpi=force".

[aatlasis]

I believe the boot will accept an argument of the form "acpi=force".

I had a similar problem in a P3 PC with FC6 i386 (PC did not turn off after shutdown).
The problem was solved adding acpi=force as a kernel parameter.

However, during booting now I receive an "error inserting acpi_cpufreq", because acpi_cpufreq.ko was not found in /lib/modules/...etc../kernel.....

[hadim72]

Thanks for your replies. I tried the acpi=force yesterday and it works. Basically I just added this to the kernel line in the grub.conf file. Now I can gladly confirm that the both modes hibernation and S3 work well. I haven't had the time to check everything yet. But it seems like some BIOS modules are blacklisted and the FC does not load the ACPI by default. I believe I saw it in the dmesg. I still don't have the ability to throttle the fan or the CPU I know that the CPU-FREQ is compiled as a module and the fan option is turned on in the kernel but in the proc/acpi/fan there is nothing.
I will post my dmesg later and I would appreciate any suggestions.

Aatlasis:
I think you should recompile your kernel with the cpufreq as a module. An alternative may be you can download and install kernel-i686 using yum.

[aatlasis]

...An alternative may be you can download and install kernel-i686 using yum.

What exactly do you mean by that???

[erroneus]

[daniel@alpha ~]$ ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/
total 52
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 16216 Nov 10 16:25 acpi_cpufreq.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 16216 Oct 16 14:50 acpi-cpufreq.ko
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 10804 Oct 16 14:50 powernow-k6.ko
[daniel@alpha ~]$ sudo insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko
insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko': -1 No such device
[daniel@alpha ~]$ sudo insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi_cpufreq.ko
insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi_cpufreq.ko': -1 No such device
[daniel@alpha ~]$ sudo modprobe /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.ko
FATAL: Module /lib/modules/2.6.18_1.2798.fc6/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi_cpufreq.ko not found.
[daniel@alpha ~]$ sudo modprobe /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi_cpufreq.ko
FATAL: Module /lib/modules/2.6.18_1.2798.fc6/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi_cpufreq.ko not found.
[daniel@alpha ~]$


The module is present but seems to have some naming problems? Prior to this list of commands I executed for your viewing pleasure, I ran a "cp" of the original module with a - in the name to one with a _ in the name.

I think the problem with this is probably easily fixed...by someone smarter than me.