Hello.

Francois Romieu wrote:

Richard Dawe [off-list ref] :
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IRQ routing seems to be disabled in 2.6.10. I got a warning about an 
unhandled interrupt for the VIA 8255 (I think that's the right number) 
on shutdown. I'm wondering if there is some bad interaction between the 
VIA chipset and the 8110 chipset.

Possible. I hope the networking does not perform better when you are
listening to music.

No, it doesn't.

I even built a kernel with no sound support, but this had the same 
problems. In this case /proc/interrupts showed that there was no driver 
handling the interrupts for the VIA 8233 sound chip.

[snip]

Could you send an updated dmesg, lspci -vvx, /proc/interrupts please ?

Please see the attached, which are for running with 2.6.10. I included 
.config, Just In Case.

Did you remove the other OS from the laptop ? I'd be curious to know
if it can teach us something.

I removed Windows XP Home. I only have Fedora Core 3 on it.

I've spoken with someone else who's had problems with Acer laptops and 
networking. He has the laptop mentioned on this page:

   http://www.latzinator.com/acer_aspire_1705SMi.html

Apparently it works fine with FreeBSD 5.3, even booting from cold. So 
this seems like a Linux ACPI-specific problem. Note that the 1705SMi is 
a Pentium IV-based laptop.

Thanks, bye, Rich =]

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