Created attachment 67872 [details] acpidump output Without any custom options my system boots, but it is unstable: screen sometimes flickers, garbage appears in framebuffer, touchpad not always works and sometimes kernel even crashes at boot time. With acpi=off everything boots and works stable without any flickering and without garbage in framebuffer. I've tried to boot with `acpi=ht`, but issues were still here.
Created attachment 67882 [details] lshw output
Created attachment 67892 [details] /var/log/dmesg Nothing interesting here, I suppose.
Created attachment 67902 [details] /var/log/syslog This one contains interesting call traces.
Created attachment 67932 [details] kernel config
> With acpi=off everything boots > and works stable without any flickering and without garbage in framebuffer. > I've tried to boot with `acpi=ht`, but issues were still here. "acpi=ht" is note a valid boot parameter in 3.0.1. Please confirm that you still see the problems when you boot with "maxcpus=1" In a configuration that shows the issues, please show the output from: cat /proc/interrupts; sleep 10; cat /proc/interrupts re: the backtraces WARNING: at drivers/base/driver.c:262 driver_unregister+0x8a/0xa0() Hardware name: 20046 Unexpected driver unregister! Modules linked in: battery(-) snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss ipv6 ext2 mbcache ppdev lp parport_pc parport fuse btusb bluetooth uvcvideo bcma videodev ohci_hcd v4l2_compat_ioctl32 radeon sp5100_tco ssb joydev ttm brcmsmac(C) drm_kms_helper brcmutil(C) drm snd_hda_codec_hdmi mmc_core snd_hda_codec_conexant agpgart snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec ehci_hcd evdev i2c_piix4 rtc_cmos atl1c mac80211 psmouse cfg80211 serio_raw rfkill snd_hwdep snd_pcm snd_timer snd i2c_algo_bit i2c_core pcmcia pcmcia_core k8temp crc_ccitt soundcore hwmon sg shpchp snd_page_alloc loop btrfs [last unloaded: pcmcia_rsrc] Pid: 3607, comm: rmmod Tainted: G C 3.0.1 #19 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8105628f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0 [<ffffffff81056386>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50 [<ffffffff8131029a>] driver_unregister+0x8a/0xa0 [<ffffffff812979f8>] acpi_bus_unregister_driver+0x15/0x17 [<ffffffffa009c37c>] acpi_battery_exit+0x10/0x1e [battery] [<ffffffff81092242>] sys_delete_module+0x192/0x290 [<ffffffff814f1342>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b ---[ end trace 4a476ded370745e3 ]--- This one looks like driver_unregister() was called by the battery driver with an illegal driver pointer. There was a race condition recently fixed upstream in the battery driver, it would be interesting if this problem goes away when you run the upstream kernel. But for now, in the interest of isolating the issue, if you can blacklist the battery driver and still reproduce the instability issues (or not), that would be helpful. eg. edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf on most distros The other stack trace is in strlen, possibly where something is touching procfs. What happens if you follow the advice of dmesg and build the kernel with th CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER=n?
> Please confirm that you still see the problems when > you boot with "maxcpus=1" Confirmed. Issues are still here with "maxcpus=1". > In a configuration that shows the issues, Following output obtained with Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 maxcpus=1 ro > please show the output from: > cat /proc/interrupts; sleep 10; cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 37013 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 637 IO-APIC-edge i8042 7: 1 IO-APIC-edge 8: 114 IO-APIC-edge rtc0 9: 9878 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 12: 30754 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 0 IO-APIC-edge pata_atiixp 15: 0 IO-APIC-edge pata_atiixp 16: 1304 IO-APIC-fasteoi hda_intel, ohci_hcd:usb3, ohci_hcd:usb4 17: 324 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, brcmsmac 18: 412 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb5, radeon 19: 3 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2 44: 14108 PCI-MSI-edge ahci 45: 29 PCI-MSI-edge hda_intel 46: 3 PCI-MSI-edge radeon 47: 212 PCI-MSI-edge eth0 NMI: 0 Non-maskable interrupts LOC: 28940 Local timer interrupts SPU: 0 Spurious interrupts PMI: 0 Performance monitoring interrupts IWI: 0 IRQ work interrupts RES: 0 Rescheduling interrupts CAL: 0 Function call interrupts TLB: 0 TLB shootdowns TRM: 0 Thermal event interrupts THR: 0 Threshold APIC interrupts MCE: 0 Machine check exceptions MCP: 2 Machine check polls ERR: 1 MIS: 0 CPU0 0: 38007 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 637 IO-APIC-edge i8042 7: 1 IO-APIC-edge 8: 114 IO-APIC-edge rtc0 9: 9900 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 12: 30754 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 0 IO-APIC-edge pata_atiixp 15: 0 IO-APIC-edge pata_atiixp 16: 1736 IO-APIC-fasteoi hda_intel, ohci_hcd:usb3, ohci_hcd:usb4 17: 335 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, brcmsmac 18: 412 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb5, radeon 19: 3 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2 44: 14113 PCI-MSI-edge ahci 45: 29 PCI-MSI-edge hda_intel 46: 3 PCI-MSI-edge radeon 47: 230 PCI-MSI-edge eth0 NMI: 0 Non-maskable interrupts LOC: 29494 Local timer interrupts SPU: 0 Spurious interrupts PMI: 0 Performance monitoring interrupts IWI: 0 IRQ work interrupts RES: 0 Rescheduling interrupts CAL: 0 Function call interrupts TLB: 0 TLB shootdowns TRM: 0 Thermal event interrupts THR: 0 Threshold APIC interrupts MCE: 0 Machine check exceptions MCP: 2 Machine check polls ERR: 1 MIS: 0 > There was a race condition recently fixed upstream > in the battery driver, it would be interesting if this > problem goes away when you run the upstream kernel. > build the kernel with th CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS_POWER=n Will alter config and build kernel 3.1rc1 today.
Created attachment 68112 [details] output of Linux-ready Firmware Developer Kit I have also tested the laptop with this tools: http://linuxfirmwarekit.org/download/firmwarekit-r3.iso Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/FSTCs.jpg
Well, there are plenty of AMD quirks and workarounds evident in dmesg. Unfortunately, I have no expertise with any of them. /proc/interrupts doesn't show anything *thrashing* that would explain your touchpad issues. It does show that you get lots of clock ticks, and I wonder if there is something odd in your .config, such as missing CONFIG_NO_HZ=y powertop would probably complain about such things. The firmware-test-kit complains about the hpet. You might consider disabling it to see if that helps. hpet=disable
Len, it seems that I confused you about the touchpad issue. I need to clarify a point. The touchpad actually works fine, but not after every system boot -- it works fine or doesn't work at all. Sometimes the system boots fine without any visible problems, but not every time. The most usual issues is a screen flickering and a garbage in the framebuffer.
Created attachment 68232 [details] Screenshot of the kernel panic I've tried booting with 'hpet=disable' on the command line. Out of six times, four times the system worked fine without visible issues. One time kernel crashed at the boot time (photo is attached). And one time I saw a screen flickering and junk symbols in the framebuffer. So, this option doesn't helped :(
Forgot to mention, that my previous comment is related to the same 3.0.1 kernel, not to 3.1rc1.
The same crash as in the comment #10 occurs on kernel 3.1rc1+ too.
Created attachment 70752 [details] Screenshot of the kernel panic 2 This panic happened when I turned screen on with Fn + F2. Before to this panic I locked KDE session, turned screen off and left laptop in this state for about 4 hours.
It's great that the kernel bugzilla is back. Can you please verify if the problem still exists in the latest upstream kernel?
I haven't seen screen flicker since upgrade to kernel 3.3rc1, but touchpad works not on every system boot.
Here is the interesting part of the diff between dmesg output, when touchpad was not working, and dmesg output, when touchpad worked fine: ------------------------------------------------- @@ -598,6 +598,7 @@ ata3: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0x9008 irq 15 i8042: PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC0,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 + serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice md: linear personality registered for level -1 md: raid0 personality registered for level 0 @@ -615,6 +616,7 @@ Initializing XFRM netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 17 Registering the dns_resolver key type + input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input0 ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata1.00: ATA-8: HITACHI HTS545025B9A300, PB2ZC61H, max UDMA/100 ata1.00: 488397168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA -------------------------------------------------
Created attachment 72215 [details] dmesg output when touchpad was not working
Created attachment 72216 [details] dmesg output when touchpad worked fine
A patch referencing this bug report has been merged in Linux v3.3-rc3: commit 82b982c9a697e7be0745523a53334fe38a4582c8 Author: Igor Murzov <intergalactic.anonymous@gmail.com> Date: Fri Feb 3 00:19:07 2012 -0800 Input: i8042 - add Lenovo Ideapad U455 to 'reset' blacklist
Igor, can you please verify the patch in comment #19 works for you?
The patch in comment #19 indeed fixes touchpad issues, but I still observe rare random crashes and screen flicker. Screen flicker seems to happen only after incorrect system shutdown.
Created attachment 72382 [details] Screenshot of the kernel panic #3 This kernel panic was observed with linux-3.3.0-rc2+.
Created attachment 72449 [details] full dmesg output with warning in it I have recently found following warning in dmesg: ACPI Warning: _BQC returned an invalid level (20120111/video-472) Looks like some bug in acpi table.
Created attachment 72450 [details] Disassembled DSDT Here is the relevant part of DSDT: Device (LCD) { Name (_ADR, 0x0110) Name (_DCS, 0x1F) Name (_DGS, Zero) Name (BLLV, Zero) Method (_DSS, 1, NotSerialized) { S80H (0xD4) Sleep (0x14) And (_DCS, 0xFFFFFFFD, _DCS) And (Arg0, One, Local0) ShiftLeft (Local0, One, Local0) Or (_DCS, Local0, _DCS) } Name (BRLV, Package (0x0F) { 0x50, 0x43, 0x14, 0x1B, 0x21, 0x28, 0x2F, 0x35, 0x3C, 0x43, 0x49, 0x50, 0x57, 0x5D, 0x64 }) Method (_BCL, 0, NotSerialized) { Return (Package (0x0D) { 0x46, 0x28, Zero, 0x0A, 0x14, 0x1E, 0x28, 0x32, 0x3C, 0x46, 0x50, 0x5A, 0x64 }) } Method (_BCM, 1, NotSerialized) { Store (0x35, P80H) Divide (Arg0, 0x0A, Local0, Local1) Store (Local1, ^^^^LPC0.EC0.BRTS) } Method (_BQC, 0, NotSerialized) { Multiply (^^^^LPC0.EC0.BRTS, 0x0A, Local0) Return (Local0) } } This bug is probably related to https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13121
Created attachment 72472 [details] dmesg output when display flickering was observed Booting kernel with acpi.debug_level=0xF acpi.debug_layer=0x10C10006 revealed that on the early stage LCD_ receives spurious notifies like this: [ 1.220201] evmisc-0120 [4294967294] ev_queue_notify_reques: Dispatching Notify on [LCD_] Node ffff8800af04e5c8 Value 0x87 (**Device Specific**) [ 1.220431] evmisc-0196 [4294967294] ev_queue_notify_reques: No notify handler for Notify (LCD_, 87) node ffff8800af04e5c8 [ 1.220666] evmisc-0120 [4294967294] ev_queue_notify_reques: Dispatching Notify on [LCD_] Node ffff8800af04f050 Value 0x87 (**Device Specific**) [ 1.220891] evmisc-0196 [4294967294] ev_queue_notify_reques: No notify handler for Notify (LCD_, 87) node ffff8800af04f050 [ 1.221136] evmisc-0120 [4294967294] ev_queue_notify_reques: Dispatching Notify on [VPC0] Node ffff8800af052140 Value 0x80 (**Device Specific**) [ 1.221361] evmisc-0196 [4294967294] ev_queue_notify_reques: No notify handler for Notify (VPC0, 80) node ffff8800af052140 I'm pretty sure, that those notifies cause display flickering and crashes. What is also interesting in the attached dmesg log is that *one* single Fn+Up or Fn+Down keypress produces *two* notifies, thus skipping some brightness levels: [ 1917.142236] evmisc-0120 [4294967289] ev_queue_notify_reques: Dispatching Notify on [LCD_] Node ffff8800af04e5c8 Value 0x86 (**Device Specific**) [ 1917.142288] evmisc-0120 [4294967289] ev_queue_notify_reques: Dispatching Notify on [LCD_] Node ffff8800af04f050 Value 0x86 (**Device Specific**) [ 1917.142330] evmisc-0120 [4294967289] ev_queue_notify_reques: Dispatching Notify on [VPC0] Node ffff8800af052140 Value 0x80 (**Device Specific**) [ 1917.142351] evmisc-0196 [4294967289] ev_queue_notify_reques: No notify handler for Notify (VPC0, 80) node ffff8800af052140 [ 1917.147153] utils-0286 [4294967282] evaluate_integer : Return value [40] [ 1917.156349] utils-0286 [4294967282] evaluate_integer : Return value [50] [ 1917.161988] utils-0286 [4294967282] evaluate_integer : Return value [50] [ 1917.171846] utils-0286 [4294967282] evaluate_integer : Return value [60] I had to add "blacklist video" to my /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf to prevent crashes and flickering, but I'm not able to change display brightness now.
A patch referencing this bug report has been merged in Linux v3.4-rc1: commit b60e7f6166857c76871977794fa266b02da1f394 Author: Igor Murzov <intergalactic.anonymous@gmail.com> Date: Fri Mar 30 21:32:09 2012 +0400 ACPI video: Don't start video device until its associated input device has been allocated
Bug closed.
I can't say that this bug is fixed. Touchpad works fine now and kernel doesn't crash. But video module still doesn't work for me. Screen still flickers from time to time, and also increasing or decreasing brightness skips one brightness level. This results in 6 brightness levels available in linux instead of 11 levels. Should i open new bug report?
I reopen this bug.
I'd prefer we'd focus on one problem for each bug report. As least the patch in comment #26 fixes the oops, right? so I think we'd close this bug and file a new bug report for the screen flickers problem.
Ok.