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Hi, I recently started having this really wierd problem. After grub I get a black screen that stays there indefinatly. I then have to tap the power button for it to proceed to boot like normal. Then after it gets to the udev events, the cursor stops blinking and the screen stops displaying any change, I have to hit the power button again for it to proceed. I have to keep doing that for every new item till it gets to checking the file system, then I have to start hitting the enter button to for it to proceed in the bootup process. As you could imagine, this is a pain in the neck. Any ideas as to what could be going on?
Last edited by semperfiguy (2008-08-20 16:30:05)
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Try booting grub with acpi=off. Weird issue, but power buttons are controlled with acpi. Just a guess really.
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I get the same blank screen problem right after grub. This time instead of the power button allowing the boot process to proceed, it just shuts the computer off. I can boot up almost perfectly on the Fallback option in grub. I had to hit the power button once early on in the boot process.
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It does the same thing on shutdown as well. it does a few actions, then hangs until I hit the enter or power button (Only one of them will do anything, sometimes power button, sometimes the enter button. ) Should I file a bug report for this if no one has any answers?
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As you saw in my post, I have the exact problem. Did this just begin within the past couple weeks? If so, maybe we are dealing with an update problem (via pacman ?) I am using an Averatec 2370 laptop if that helps.
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Yes it did begin recently. I am on a HP Pavilion dv6707 laptop, so different models.
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Try adding this one when booting: nolapic_timer
There are some issues with lapic timer on some machines in the latest kernel
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Thank you pnil, that seems to do the trick. does it work for you glenn69?
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That also worked for me. Thanks pril, and semperfiguy !
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Does doing this have any negative effects on acpi's functioning?
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I can't really tell you what the side effects are.
From what I understand, using the local APIC timer is a pretty new feature in the kernel.
Keep an eye on this kernel bug
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The trick seems to work for me as well. Having a similar issue, although it happens to me only during startup and I only have to press the power button once. It hangs just after grub.
I used to have this issue right after I installed Arch for the very first time at the beginning of this year, then it vanished. Now, after the upgrade to 2.6.26 it re-occured. Strange: I have a rather limited 64bit version installed in parallel but without this issue...
Jochen
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