ACPI-0220: *** Error: Unable to install System Control Interrupt Handler, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS

[John Baldwin]

On Saturday 10 December 2005 07:32 pm, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I updated my BIOS on an AMD64 machine to check if it improves some
> other things and got following with HEAD from around 12-08 (before
> the last amd64/jhb commits I think) and with HEAD from today (after
> these updates).
>
> RELENG_6 from beginning of December seems to be fine.

I'll need a verbose dmesg.  The only thing I can think of is the change to 
forcefully disallow any mixed mode, which if it broke your system it meant a 
lot of your ISA IRQs were bouncing through the 8259A rather than the I/O 
APIC.

> ...
>    AMD Features=0xe2500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,LM,3DNow+,3DNow>
>    AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
> usable memory  = 4283154432 (4084 MB)
> avail memory = 4130279424 (3938 MB)
> acpi0: <Nvidia AWRDACPI> on motherboard
> acpi0: could not allocate interrupt
>      ACPI-0220: *** Error: Unable to install System Control Interrupt
> Handler, AE_ALREADY_EXISTS acpi0: Could not enable ACPI: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
> device_attach: acpi0 attach returned 6
> cpu0 on motherboard
> pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> pcibus 0 on motherboard
> pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
> pci0: <memory> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
> isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
> pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 1.1 (no driver attached)
> atapci0: <nVidia nForce4 UDMA133 controller> port
> 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xf000-0xf00f at device 6.0 on pci0
> ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
> ata0: unable to allocate interrupt
> device_attach: ata0 attach returned 6
> ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
> ata1: unable to allocate interrupt
> device_attach: ata1 attach returned 6
> ...

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