HP dv9000z...general musings & errors

Question

Laptop comes (stock) with nforce 430 chipset and GeForce Go 6150 integrated video.
As of Kernel26-2.6.18-7:
   Will not boot (arch64) without out first turning off acpi.
     (hangs randomly and or no visual output after boot)
   Will not boot 7.2 install (stock or topwa's)
     kernel panic on topaw's and I forget what error on stock
   Nvidia1.0.8774-2 installs, however a reboot produces nothing but a black screen (x loads, you just can't see anything....at all)
   NV driver works
   HorizSync 30-82
   VertRefresh 56-76  <-----2+hrs on HP's chat site just to get H&V values!!!
   Modeline "1440x900@60" 108.84 1440 1472 1880 1912 900 918 927 946
I would very much appreciate help on getting this working w/nvidia driver (as opposed to nv...sucks) as well as w/o having to turn off acpi.
lspci:
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a2)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PMU (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev f1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev f1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Class 0403: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Unknown device 4311 (rev 01)
07:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0832
07:05.1 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
07:05.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
07:05.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
07:05.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)
dmesg:
Linux version 2.6.18-ARCH (root@AcharyaX64) (gcc version 4.1.1) #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Oct 11 00:42:05 IST 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009dc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009dc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000d2000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003df00000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003df00000 - 000000003df17000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000003df17000 - 000000003df80000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000003df80000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
DMI present.
On node 0 totalpages: 249078
DMA zone: 2890 pages, LIFO batch:0
DMA32 zone: 246188 pages, LIFO batch:31
Nvidia board detected. Ignoring ACPI timer override.
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: nVIDIA Product ID: C51-MCP51 APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor #0 15:8 APIC version 16
Processor #1 15:8 APIC version 16
I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
Setting APIC routing to physical flat
Processors: 2
Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:a0000000)
SMP: Allowing 2 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 249078
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda3 ro acpi=off
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes)
time.c: Using 1.193182 MHz WALL PIT GTOD PIT/TSC timer.
time.c: Detected 1607.336 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Checking aperture...
CPU 0: aperture @ 3680000000 size 32 MB
Aperture too small (32 MB)
No AGP bridge found
Memory: 993808k/1014784k available (2542k kernel code, 20296k reserved, 941k data, 204k init)
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3221.26 BogoMIPS (lpj=6442535)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 532k freed
ExtINT not setup in hardware but reported by MP table
Using IO-APIC 2
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
result 12557326
Detected 12.557 MHz APIC timer.
SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code
Booting processor 1/2 APIC 0x1
Initializing CPU#1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3214.85 BogoMIPS (lpj=6429713)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 1
AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-52 stepping 02
CPU 1: Syncing TSC to CPU 0.
CPU 1: synchronized TSC with CPU 0 (last diff 0 cycles, maxerr 480 cycles)
Brought up 2 CPUs
testing NMI watchdog ... OK.
migration_cost=223
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Boot video device is 0000:00:05.0
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:10.0
PCI: Discovered primary peer bus 04 [IRQ]
PCI: Using IRQ router default [10de/0260] at 0000:00:0a.0
PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:02.0
IO window: 4000-4fff
MEM window: b3000000-b31fffff
PREFETCH window: d0000000-d01fffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:03.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: b3200000-b33fffff
PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:10.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: b3400000-b34fffff
PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:03.0 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:10.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [email protected]).
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
0000:00:0b.1 EHCI: BIOS handoff failed (BIOS bug ?) 01010001
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[02fc:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:02.0:pcie00]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:03.0 to 64
pcie_portdrv_probe->Dev[02fd:10de] has invalid IRQ. Check vendor BIOS
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:03.0:pcie00]
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
libata version 2.00 loaded.
sata_nv 0000:00:0e.0: version 2.0
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0e.0 (0005 -> 0007)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0e.0 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x30C0 ctl 0x30B6 bmdma 0x3090 irq 5
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x30B8 ctl 0x30B2 bmdma 0x3098 irq 5
scsi0 : sata_nv
ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
ata1.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/100, 156301488 sectors: LBA48
ata1.00: ata1: dev 0 multi count 16
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
scsi1 : sata_nv
ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x30BF
Vendor: ATA Model: FUJITSU MHV2080B Rev: 892C
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
NFORCE-MCP51: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0d.0
NFORCE-MCP51: chipset revision 241
NFORCE-MCP51: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
NFORCE-MCP51: BIOS didn't set cable bits correctly. Enabling workaround.
NFORCE-MCP51: 0000:00:0d.0 (rev f1) UDMA133 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x3080-0x3087, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 <sda5>
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
hda: TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-L632D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
JFS: nTxBlock = 7772, nTxLock = 62177
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0b.0 to 64
ohci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ohci_hcd 0000:00:0b.0: irq 11, io mem 0xb0004000
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:0b.1 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0b.1: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0b.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0b.1: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 64 is not supported by device 0000:00:0b.1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0b.1: irq 7, io mem 0xb0005000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0b.1: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:05.0 to 64
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86_64 Kernel Module 1.0-8774 Tue Aug 1 21:42:17 PDT 2006
i2c_adapter i2c-0: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x3040
i2c_adapter i2c-1: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x3000
forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.56.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:14.0 to 64
forcedeth: using HIGHDMA
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver, 0.12
sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 0103c:30b7 bound to 0000:00:14.0
sdhci: SDHCI controller found at 0000:07:05.1 [1180:0822] (rev 19)
mmc0: SDHCI at 0xb3400800 irq 11 DMA
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:10.1 to 64
usb 1-2: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
input: CHICONY Compaq USB Keyboard as /class/input/input2
input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [CHICONY Compaq USB Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:0b.0-1
input: CHICONY Compaq USB Keyboard as /class/input/input3
input,hiddev0: USB HID v1.10 Device [CHICONY Compaq USB Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:0b.0-1
input: Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM) as /class/input/input4
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)] on usb-0000:00:0b.0-2
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x1a0b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x200000
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input5
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
hda_intel: azx_get_response timeout, switching to single_cmd mode...
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[11] MMIO=[b3400000-b34007ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/4]
Adding 995988k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:995988k
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[009fc00000a3b900]
eth1394: eth1: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0)
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Haven't tried wireless yet, nor card readers nor firewire...just trying to get basics down for right now. 
EDIT:
Tired beyond kernel...same deal as stock.
May try ck but I'm sure it'll produce same results.

Answer 1

So on a whim i decided to give a live cd a shot...sabayon linux... pretty sweet for a live cd uses beryl, emerald, aiglx or xgl, and the latest beta drivers for nividia. Check it out if you want to see some nice eyecandy via a live cd SABAYON. Booted it up and worked like a champ. Didn't have to turn off acpi either.
Turns out this model of laptop doesn't work with the current nvidia 8x drivers, only the 9x drivers. Answers that problem.
Reinstalled arch64 7.2 and got it to work w/out turning off acpi. Don't know why it's working now where it didn't before...I did nothing different. However during the boot process i get LOTS of udev errors. Where can I find a log of the entire boot process? I've checked all of the logs in /var/log and didn't see anything about udev errors.
Sound works out the gate...sort of. When you go to the properties of the sound module there's only 1 option (Master) for a slider. Also, having headphones plugged in doesn't turn off the laptop speakers, nor does it pipe sound to the headphones.
P.S. Kudos to ArchLinux!!! a beryl search at google.com/linux turns us up as the 3rd link!!!