with the 2.6.27 kernels i never had this type of errors intalled the bios again to make sure the acpi tables are alright from dmesg last_map_addr: cfef0000 end: cfef0000 init_memory_mapping: 0000000100000000-0000000230000000 0100000000 - 0230000000 page 2M kernel direct mapping tables up to 230000000 @ 14000-1e000 last_map_addr: 230000000 end: 230000000 RAMDISK: 37989000 - 37fef987 ACPI: RSDP 000F7CA0, 0024 (r2 Nvidia) ACPI: XSDT CFEF30C0, 004C (r1 Nvidia ASUSACPI 42302E31 AWRD 0) ACPI: FACP CFEFB680, 00F4 (r3 Nvidia ASUSACPI 42302E31 AWRD 0) ACPI Warning (tbfadt-0568): 32/64X length mismatch in Pm1aEventBlock: 32/8 [20081204] ACPI Warning (tbfadt-0568): 32/64X length mismatch in Pm1aControlBlock: 16/8 [20081204] ACPI Warning (tbfadt-0568): 32/64X length mismatch in PmTimerBlock: 32/8 [20081204] ACPI Warning (tbfadt-0568): 32/64X length mismatch in Gpe0Block: 64/8 [20081204] ACPI Warning (tbfadt-0568): 32/64X length mismatch in Gpe1Block: 128/8 [20081204] ACPI Warning (tbfadt-0412): Invalid length for Pm1aEventBlock: 8, using default 32 [20081204] ACPI Warning (tbfadt-0412): Invalid length for Pm1aControlBlock: 8, using default 16 [20081204] ACPI Warning (tbfadt-0412): Invalid length for PmTimerBlock: 8, using default 32 [20081204] FADT: X_PM1a_EVT_BLK.bit_width (16) does not match PM1_EVT_LEN (4) ACPI: DSDT CFEF3240, 83FB (r1 NVIDIA AWRDACPI 1000 MSFT 3000000) ACPI: FACS CFEF0000, 0040 ACPI: HPET CFEFB8C0, 0038 (r1 Nvidia ASUSACPI 42302E31 AWRD 98) ACPI: MCFG CFEFB940, 003C (r1 Nvidia ASUSACPI 42302E31 AWRD 0) ACPI: APIC CFEFB7C0, 0098 (r1 Nvidia ASUSACPI 42302E31 AWRD 0) ACPI: SSDT CFEFC1C0, 087B (r1 Nvidia ASUSACPI 42302E31 AWRD 0) ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 No NUMA configuration found Faking a node at 0000000000000000-0000000230000000 Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-0000000230000000 NODE_DATA [0000000000019000 - 0000000000030fff] bootmap [0000000000031000 - 0000000000076fff] pages 46 (7 early reservations) ==> bootmem [0000000000 - 0230000000] #0 [0000000000 - 0000001000] BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 - 0000001000] #1 [0000006000 - 0000008000] TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000006000 - 0000008000] #2 [0000200000 - 0000aed830] TEXT DATA BSS ==> [0000200000 - 0000aed830] #3 [0037989000 - 0037fef987] RAMDISK ==> [0037989000 - 0037fef987] #4 [000009c000 - 0000100000] BIOS reserved ==> [000009c000 - 0000100000] #5 [0000010000 - 0000014000] PGTABLE ==> [0000010000 - 0000014000] #6 [0000014000 - 0000019000] PGTABLE ==> [0000014000 - 0000019000] found SMP MP-table at [ffff8800000f6160] 000f6160 [ffffe20000000000-ffffe20007bfffff] PMD -> [ffff880001200000-ffff8800083fffff] on node 0 Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0x00000010 -> 0x00001000 DMA32 0x00001000 -> 0x00100000 Normal 0x00100000 -> 0x00230000 Movable zone start PFN for each node early_n Initializing the cpus on a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz stepping 0b Initializing CPU#0 Experimental hierarchical RCU implementation. Experimental hierarchical RCU init done. PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes) Extended CMOS year: 2000 Fast TSC calibration using PIT Detected 2400.086 MHz processor. spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 console [tty0] enabled Checking aperture... No AGP bridge found PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB) Placing 64MB software IO TLB between ffff880008484000 - ffff88000c484000 software IO TLB at phys 0x8484000 - 0xc484000 Memory: 8187972k/9175040k available (3041k kernel code, 787984k absent, 199084k reserved, 3451k data, 884k init) hpet clockevent registered HPET: 3 timers in total, 0 timers will be used for per-cpu timer Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 4800.17 BogoMIPS (lpj=9600344) kdb version 4.4 by Keith Owens, Scott Lurndal. Copyright SGI, All Rights Reserved Security Framework initialized SELinux: Disabled at boot. Dentry cache hash table entries: 1048576 (order: 11, 8388608 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 Initializing cgroup subsys ns Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct Initializing cgroup subsys memory Initializing cgroup subsys devices Initializing cgroup subsys freezer Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K CPU: L2 cache: 4096K [ds] using Core 2/Atom configuration CPU 0/0x0 -> Node 0 CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 CPU: Processor Core ID: 0 CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM2) using mwait in idle threads. ACPI: Core revision 20081204 ACPI: Checking initramfs for custom DSDT ACPI: setting ELCR to 0ea0 (from 0ca0) Setting APIC routing to flat ExtINT not setup in hardware but reported by MP table ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=0 pin2=0 CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz stepping 0b Booting processor 1 APIC 0x1 ip 0x6000 Initializing CPU#1 Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4799.94 BogoMIPS (lpj=9599891) CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K CPU: L2 cache: 4096K [ds] using Core 2/Atom configuration CPU 1/0x1 -> Node 0 CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 CPU: Processor Core ID: 1 CPU1: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM2) x86 PAT enabled: cpu 1, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106 CPU1: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz stepping 0b checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> CPU#1]: passed. Booting processor 2 APIC 0x3 ip 0x6000 Initializing CPU#2 Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4800.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=9600002) CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K CPU: L2 cache: 4096K [ds] using Core 2/Atom configuration CPU 2/0x3 -> Node 0 CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 CPU: Processor Core ID: 3 CPU2: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM2) x86 PAT enabled: cpu 2, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106 CPU2: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz stepping 0b checking TSC synchronization [CPU#1 -> CPU#2]: passed. Booting processor 3 APIC 0x2 ip 0x6000 Initializing CPU#3 Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4799.98 BogoMIPS (lpj=9599960) CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K CPU: L2 cache: 4096K [ds] using Core 2/Atom configuration CPU 3/0x2 -> Node 0 CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 CPU: Processor Core ID: 2 CPU3: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM2) x86 PAT enabled: cpu 3, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106 CPU3: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz stepping 0b checking TSC synchronization [CPU#2 -> CPU#3]: passed. Brought up 4 CPUs Total of 4 processors activated (19200.09 BogoMIPS). CPU0 attaching sched-domain: domain 0: span 0-1 level MC groups: 0 1 domain 1: span 0-3 level CPU groups: 0-1 2-3 CPU1 attaching sched-domain: domain 0: span 0-1 level MC groups: 1 0 domain 1: span 0-3 level CPU groups: 0-1 2-3 CPU2 attaching sched-domain: domain 0: span 2-3 level MC groups: 2 3 domain 1: span 0-3 level CPU groups: 2-3 0-1 CPU3 attaching sched-domain: domain 0: span 2-3 level MC groups: 3 2 domain 1: span 0-3 level CPU groups: 2-3 0-1 the lines : [ds] using Core 2/Atom configuration this is not a atom cpu so i took out "perfmon" and ck804xrom.ko fom lib/modules boot parameters are pnpacpi=no pci=noacpi acpi_irq_balance in this way the kernel gives more or less the same info in Gkrellm as a 2.6.27 with out the boot parameters half the irq are routed to cpu 0 irq 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 2 not used pcie's irq 24 and irq25 are alwayes on cpu 0 alloc irq_desc for 24 on cpu 0 node 0 alloc kstat_irqs on cpu 0 node 0 alloc irq_desc for 25 on cpu 0 node 0 alloc kstat_irqs on cpu 0 node 0 -- Robert Koendering Willemstad Curacao -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org