SOLVED only boots with acpi=off

[jewnersey]

In order for me to boot into LM14 i have to add 'acpi=off'. when i use 'acpi=ht' it hangs again almost immediately and i need to force restart.

what ive read yields "This disables all of ACPI except just enough to enable Hyper Threading. If acpi=off works and acpi=ht fails, then the issue is in the ACPI table parsing code itself, or perhaps the SMP code."

Anyone familiar with this?

[xenopeek]

This is on a laptop? Can you share the make & model of this laptop?

Also, please share the output of the following command. It may give other members here some information that will help. You can copy text to/from the terminal, see its Edit menu.

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inxi -Fxz

[jewnersey]

Thanks, Its an Acer TravelMate 8172

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System:    Host: mintyFresh Kernel: 3.5.0-17-generic i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.7.2) Desktop: Gnome Distro: Linux Mint 14 Nadia
Machine:   System: Acer product: TravelMate 8172 version: V1.07
           Mobo: Acer model: TravelMate 8172 version: PSMBOU-1234567 Bios: Acer version: V1.07 date: 06/04/2010
CPU:       Single core Intel Core i3 CPU U 330 (-UP-) cache: 3072 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 2400.01 clocked at 1200.008 MHz 
Graphics:  Card: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0 
           X.Org: 1.13.0 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev) FAILED: vesa Resolution: 1366x768@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ironlake Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 9.0 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: 1.0.25
Network:   Card-1: Broadcom BCM43225 802.11b/g/n driver: bcma-pci-bridge bus-ID: 01:00.0
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM57760 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe driver: tg3 ver: 3.123 bus-ID: 03:00.0
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 250.1GB (34.5% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: ST9250315AS size: 250.1GB 
Partition: ID: / size: 23G used: 3.8G (18%) fs: ext4 ID: /home size: 166G used: 77G (49%) fs: ext4 
           ID: swap-1 size: 4.00GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
RAID:      No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 68.0C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 
Info:      Processes: 139 Uptime: 55 min Memory: 340.9/1753.9MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.7.2 Client: Shell inxi: 1.8.4 

[jewnersey]

still struggling

tried this
http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/420

and the xbacklight auto-start fix

[jewnersey]

re-updated bios and it boots now.

[jewnersey]

sooo scratch that.. i didnt update grub after the bios update, and having done that today... stil need acpi=off

[jewnersey]

installed this kernel 3.7.3-030703-generic and now it boots fine and the fan doesnt run on overdrive anymore.

former issue regarding the Wireless not auto-on after boot is back, but better than the power problems