[gentoo-dev] Kernel 2.5 problems

[gentoo-dev] Kernel 2.5 problems

[Martin Schipany]

hi!

due to the youth of my notebook i tried 2.5.13 for better acpi and 
other things. sad thing is, that gentoo doesn't really boot up. first 
it stopped ad cardmgr (okay, removed that one from boot-process, 
kernel should be doing fine itself ;), then it stopped at syslog 
(well, i'd like to have logging but not by all means) then it died 
trying to startup gdm/X - which is really a problem. 

does anyone have a 2.5.x kernel running with gentoo? are there any 
known incompatibilities? (i know that the kernel is unstable, but 
syslog and gpm making problems is not too deep in the kernel i'd 
think)

+lg

   M.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel 2.5 problems

[Ryan Phillips]

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On Wed, 8 May 2002 09:28:19 +0200
"Martin Schipany" <elcondor@wennja.warum.net> wrote:

> due to the youth of my notebook i tried 2.5.13 for better acpi and 
> other things. sad thing is, that gentoo doesn't really boot up. first 
> it stopped ad cardmgr (okay, removed that one from boot-process, 
> kernel should be doing fine itself ;), then it stopped at syslog 
> (well, i'd like to have logging but not by all means) then it died 
> trying to startup gdm/X - which is really a problem. 
> 
> does anyone have a 2.5.x kernel running with gentoo? are there any 
> known incompatibilities? (i know that the kernel is unstable, but 
> syslog and gpm making problems is not too deep in the kernel i'd 
> think)
> 

What laptop brand is it? There are some known issues with APIC being installed 
into laptop kernels... more information would help.

-ryan

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Kernel 2.5 problems

[Martin Schipany]

to recall the words of Ryan Phillips:

> > due to the youth of my notebook i tried 2.5.13 for better acpi and 
> > other things. sad thing is, that gentoo doesn't really boot up. first 
> > it stopped ad cardmgr (okay, removed that one from boot-process, 
> > kernel should be doing fine itself ;), then it stopped at syslog 
> > (well, i'd like to have logging but not by all means) then it died 
> > trying to startup gdm/X - which is really a problem. 
> > 
> > does anyone have a 2.5.x kernel running with gentoo? are there any 
> > known incompatibilities? (i know that the kernel is unstable, but 
> > syslog and gpm making problems is not too deep in the kernel i'd 
> > think)
> > 
> 
> What laptop brand is it? There are some known issues with APIC being installed 
> into laptop kernels... more information would help.

It's a Sony Vaio PCG-GRX316G (P4-1.6GHz with Intel 845 Chipset, Radeon 
7500 graphics)

there are no error-messages during kernel-booting, the APIC messages 
seem to be okay - at least compared to 2.4.1[8-9]*, where i get lots 
of error messages concerning ACPI, as follows:

evxfevnt-0081 [02] Acpi_enable           : Transition to ACPI mode 
successful
Executing device _INI methods:..............evregion-0302 [21] 
Ev_address_space_dispa: Region handler: AE_ERROR [PCIConfig]
Ps_execute: method failed - \_SB_.PCI0.HUB_.CRD0._INI (cff28928)
  nsinit-0351 [04] Ns_init_one_device    : \   /_SB_PCI0HUB_CRD0._INI 
failed: AE_ERROR
.evregion-0302 [21] Ev_address_space_dispa: Region handler: AE_ERROR 
[PCIConfig]Ps_execute: method failed - \_SB_.PCI0.HUB_.CRD1._INI 
(cff28da8)
  nsinit-0351 [04] Ns_init_one_device    : \   /_SB_PCI0HUB_CRD1._INI 
failed: AE_ERROR
..............evregion-0302 [22] Ev_address_space_dispa: Region 
handler: AE_ERROR [System_memory]
Ps_execute: method failed - \_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.EC0_.BAT1._STA (cff24c28)
  uteval-0337 [05] Ut_execute_STA        : _STA on BAT1 failed 
AE_ERROR
.evregion-0302 [22] Ev_address_space_dispa: Region handler: AE_ERROR 
[System_memory]

and so on, for many, many lines ;))

I will try a gentoo/2.5.x installation on an ordinary PC (as soon as i
can organize it) with older hardware trying to reproduce the problems.
 

+lg

   M.

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