[plug] Laptop freezes under 2.4 kernel bootup

Ryan ryan at is.as.geeky.as
Tue Aug 5 14:02:57 WST 2003


Did you patch the Kernel with the latest ACPI release?  A lot of new
laptops do virtually nothing without it as it handles PCI routing on
some machines.

vanilla 2.4.21 and 
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/acpi/acpi-20030619-2.4.21.diff.gz?download

It could he something more detached too.  Intel 82801CA/CAM ICH3
chipsets can get jiggy with i2c which is a whole different thread. 
Don't know about the 82820.  I've seen reports of things getting flakey
without i2c as it was needed in that particular case to keep ACPI
happily reading the sensors and thus willing to play ball with PCI, but
I'd gather such a muff-up is rare.

Re lilo kernel load speed: find the word 'compact' on a line by itself
in lilo.conf and uncomment it, then run lilo again and reboot.

Ryan

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 13:27, Andrew Furey wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> A colleague has just bought himself a new laptop (an
> ITC Centris somethingorother) which we're setting up
> Debian dualboot on. We're having trouble getting a 2.4
> kernel installed (works OK with the dist-default
> 2.2.17). During bootup, it gets as far as:
> 
> 
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes;
> override with idebus=xx
> PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9
> PIIX4: chipset revision 5
> PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>     ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1440-0x1447, BIOS settings:
> hda:DMA, hdb:pio
>     ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1448-0x144f, BIOS settings:
> hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> 
> 
> ... and then just sits there (I've left it for 5
> minutes or so). The equivalent section on the 2.2
> version continues with:
> 
> 
> hda: TOSHIBA MK3018GAS, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: Slimtype COMBO LSC-24081, ATAPI CDROM drive
> etc etc.
> 
> 
> Presumably there's something about either the disk or
> the controller that it's not liking. I've seen it
> booted in Knoppix (which I presume has 2.4) but I
> didn't see the bootup messages so I can't tell you
> anything in that regard.
> 
> lspci (under 2.2) says:
> 
> 
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale)
> Chipset Host Bridge (rev 03)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale)
> Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 03)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82820 820 (Camino 2)
> Chipset PCI (rev 05)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82820 820 (Camino 2)
> Chipset ISA Bridge (ICH2) (rev 05)
> 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82820 820 (Camino
> 2) Chipset IDE U100 (rev 05)
> 00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82820 820 (Camino
> 2) Chipset USB (Hub A) (rev 05)
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82820 820 (Camino 2)
> Chipset SMBus (rev 05)
> 00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82820 820 (Camino
> 2) Chipset USB (Hub B) (rev 05)
> 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82820
> 820 (Camino 2) Chipset AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 05)
> 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82820 820 (Camino 2)
> Chipset AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 05)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies
> Inc: Unknown device 4c66 (rev 01)
> 02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor
> Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 10)
> 02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev b8)
> 02:04.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd: Unknown
> device 0551
> 
> 
> Also (if it's any help), LILO's loading of the kernel
> seems to take a while on both setups, but that's
> probably related to it being on hda3, and also running
> after boot.ini on XP. Bleh.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Andrew




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