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First of all - I would like to say thank you to this community, you all have saved my a$$ multiple time in the 6 or so months that I have run Arch linux. so... Thank you.
Second of all - My problem (I figure being more verbose may help someone help me - please stick with me here):
I had to do a full reinsall of Wombat (0.7) earlier today, as I seem to have hosed some libraries when I updated my copy of Quake 3 to the latest patch. So I redid the install, formating my / partition to reiserfs and later adding my home partition to the fstab, so the install wouldn't format it. Well, as indicated I could boot the new install - everything went well except for X. X wouldn't start so I updated xorg. Still didn't work so I figured I'd try the new kernel. Seeing that 2.6.12 was now in the repo, I updated (2.6.11 didn't like ALSA and my soundcard). Now I rebooted to use the new kernel, but the kernel hangs after the IDE detection. The last line is:
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings:hdc:DMA, hdd:DMASo I searched the forum for the error, saw another post about the ACPI management having something to do with it and suggesting that I pass the option "vga=nofb" to grub to clear the issue up. Now I can't get into the kernel - grub fails with an error # 23. I remove the option from grub and, of course, still have the same error. Anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you all for your attention. (I know its a boring read)
"Unix is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." (Dennis Ritchie)
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a temporary fix (for laptop users, desktop users can use it as a permenant fix) is to pass "acpi=off" to the kernel. for some reason unknown to me it causes the bootup to be smooth again.
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I'll try it. Thanks much.
"Unix is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." (Dennis Ritchie)
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I am having the same problem, but desperately need acpi enabled because the computer overheats like crazy without frequency scaling. any ideas on how i can enable acpi and still get through the boot process?
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has anybody figured out how to get past the ide hang with acpi on?
thanks,
mike
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downgraded kernel to the wombat version.
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I'm having problems now too - I need acpi enabled on my laptop with 2.6.12 because of the cpufreq, but if ACPI is off....You all know the rest.
Any help about booting with ACPI on would be great. Thank you.
"Unix is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." (Dennis Ritchie)
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im hoping that 2.6.13 will solve the problem that 2.6.12.2-1 introduced. im just waiting for the package to be released.
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can you put up the pkg somewhere or something? my problem is that my computer overheats before the kernel can finish compiling.
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