f9 beta fails sis graphics

[William Murray]

> 
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 07:52:47PM -0000, Murray, WJ (Bill) wrote:
> 
>  >   I tried the F9 beta live on an Advent 9115. It is incredibly
> slow.
> 
> We still have the over the top debugging enabled in teh kernel which
> may
> account for some of the slowness.  It'll be downgraded a touch this
> week,
> and then turned off for the release candidate in a few weeks.

  No, it really cannot just be slow. There is something really wrong.
The graphics is corrupted, the top panel half missing and odd bits of
windows appear on screen. I have filed bug 439091 
> 
>  > APIC or ACPI had to be switched off to allow booting, but that is
> true for F8 too.
>  > Any ideas what might be wrong?
> 
> Crap standards, intoxicated BIOS authors, bugs in our ACPI
> interpretor..
> The list goes on.  File a bug on this.  It's a pain to debug these
> issues
> remotely, especially if you don't have a serial console or the like to
> get the logs out.   Does it get to a prompt if you boot in single user
> mode ?
> Or does it die long before then ?

I have put the last few lines before the hang into bug 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439084
As you say, gathering info is slow. Possibly related to
Alexey Starikovskiy (2):
      ACPI: battery: Don't return -EFAIL on broken packages.
      Revert "ACPI: EC: Handle IRQ storm on Acer laptops"
in 2.6.25-rc7
     Bill

> 
>         Dave