Re: Current broken on my laptop (Toshiba Libretto 110CT)

Mark Murray wrote:
> I've been hoping this was temporary instability, but it appears to
> be here to stay.
> 
> My Toshiba Libretto (ToPIC97 chipset) hangs hard on boot at a random
> time with recent currents. Ie the hang can happen while the probes
> are still happening or it can happen while the rc scripts are
> running. I never get as far as being able to log in. This happens
> with a range of BIOS options, and also with ACPI disabled. I have
> the latest BIOS for my laptop (8.10).  I have tried it with no cards
> in the PCMCIA/CardBus slots to no avail.
> 
> The hang symptom is a hard hang with no keyboard response; I need
> to hit reset or do a power-down.
> 
> Enclosed is output from dmesg. Any suggestions?

These parts of the dmesg look sketchy:
 > psm0: unable to allocate IRQ
 > atpic: No ELCR to configure IRQ12 as edge/high
 > psmcpnp0 irq 12 on acpi0
 > psm0: current command byte:0047
 > psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
 >
 > sio0: irq maps: 0x1 0x11 0x11 0x11
 > sio0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0
 > sio0: type 16550A
 > atpic: No ELCR to configure IRQ4 as edge/high
 >
 > atpic: Ignoring invalid level/low configuration for IRQ13

I'm guessing it's the atpic changes that are causing this.

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-Nate