Hi, I've downloaded and tested netinst sarge Pre RC2 and the problem is still present in the installer. By default the installer gets to the Choose language screen but the keyboard is locked and the laptop needs to be hard booted. If the linux26 option is selected the problem goes away. I have enclosed the dmesg output from the successful boot of the linux26 installed laptop. Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance.
Regards, Simon
Linux version 2.6.6-1-386 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.3 (Debian 20040401)) #1 Wed May 12 13:19:06 EST 2004 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000d8000 - 00000000000e0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fef0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000fef0000 - 000000000feff000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000000feff000 - 000000000ff00000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000000ff00000 - 0000000010000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 254MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 65264 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Normal zone: 61168 pages, LIFO batch:14 HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1 DMI present. ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f6960 ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x0fefa74e ACPI: FADT (v001 ALI M1533 0x06040000 PTL 0x000f4240) @ 0x0fefeeaf ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x0fefef23 ACPI: SSDT (v001 PTLTD ACPIPST1 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x0fefef4b ACPI: DSDT (v001 ALI M1533 0x06040000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000 ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x8008 Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda7 ro No local APIC present or hardware disabled Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 1024 (order 10: 8192 bytes) Detected 1792.457 MHz processor. Using pmtmr for high-res timesource Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Memory: 251648k/261056k available (1300k kernel code, 8680k reserved, 679k data, 204k init, 0k highmem) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay loop... 3547.13 BogoMIPS Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K CPU: L2 cache: 512K CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000080 CPU: Intel Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 1.80GHz stepping 07 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Checking for popad bug... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (ungzip failed); looks like an initrd Freeing initrd memory: 4200k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16 EISA bus registered PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd58e, last bus=2 PCI: Using configuration type 1 mtrr: v2.0 (20020519) ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326 ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger. ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 10) *11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 10 *11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 10 *11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs *10 11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 10 *11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs *11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKU] (IRQs 10 *11) ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC] (gpe 34) Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support... PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f6990 PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0x95bf, dseg 0x400 pnp: 00:00: ioport range 0x370-0x371 has been reserved pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x40b-0x40b has been reserved pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x480-0x48f has been reserved pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x4d6-0x4d6 has been reserved pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x8000-0x803f has been reserved pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x8040-0x805f has been reserved PnPBIOS: 19 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 19 recorded by driver ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 10 ACPI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 0000:00:10.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKU] enabled at IRQ 11 PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing Simple Boot Flag at 0x37 set to 0x1 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) devfs: boot_options: 0x0 Initializing Cryptographic API Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds. isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 54 ports, IRQ sharing enabled ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A ttyS53 at I/O 0x1c28 (irq = 11) is a 8250 ttyS2 at I/O 0x1c40 (irq = 11) is a 8250 ttyS3 at I/O 0x1c50 (irq = 11) is a 8250 ttyS4 at I/O 0x1c60 (irq = 11) is a 8250 ttyS5 at I/O 0x1c70 (irq = 11) is a 8250 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768) NET: Registered protocol family 8 NET: Registered protocol family 20 ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5) RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0 RAMDISK: Loading 4200 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... |/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-done. VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed NET: Registered protocol family 1 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ALI15X3: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:10.0 ACPI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 0000:00:10.0 ALI15X3: chipset revision 196 ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2480-0x2487, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2488-0x248f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: FUJITSU MHR2020AT, ATA DISK drive Using anticipatory io scheduler ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hdc: MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8176, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: max request size: 128KiB hda: 39070080 sectors (20003 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(33) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 p7 > SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block numbers, no debug enabled SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Adding 514032k swap on /dev/hda6. Priority:-1 extents:1 EXT3 FS on hda7, internal journal Real Time Clock Driver v1.12 hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 Capability LSM initialized ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394' ohci1394: $Rev: 1203 $ Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[11] MMIO=[e0002800-e0002fff] Max Packet=[2048] Linux Kernel Card Services options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:13.0 [17c0:3102] Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x00b8, PCI irq 10 Socket status: 30000007 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0x2000, 00:00:e2:8a:01:49, IRQ 10 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' eth0: link down orinoco.c 0.13e (David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others) orinoco_pci.c 0.13e (David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> & Jean Tourrilhes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) Detected Orinoco/Prism2 PCI device at 0000:00:0c.0, mem:0xE0005000 to 0xE0005FFF -> 0xd08ac000, irq:11 Reset done............<7>ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[001106000008d686] .<7>orinoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable (dev=cec39800) ........................................................................; Clear Reset.............<6>ip1394: $Rev: 1198 $ Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ip1394: eth1: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0) ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................; pci_cor : reg = 0x0 - FFFBC62D - FFFBC439 eth2: Station identity 001f:0006:0001:0003 eth2: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 1.3.6 eth2: Ad-hoc demo mode supported eth2: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported eth2: WEP supported, 104-bit key eth2: MAC address 00:01:24:D0:1C:A8 eth2: Station name "Prism I" eth2: ready NET: Registered protocol family 17 input: PC Speaker Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1 Firmware: 5.8 180 degree mounted touchpad Sensor: 18 new absolute packet format Touchpad has extended capability bits -> 4 multi-buttons, i.e. besides standard buttons -> multifinger detection -> palm detection input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1 inserting floppy driver for 2.6.6-1-386 FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output irda_init() NET: Registered protocol family 23 parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected ALi M1671 chipset agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 202M agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf0000000 cpci_hotplug: CompactPCI Hot Plug Core version: 0.2 pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 pciehp: PCI Express Hot Plug Controller Driver version: 0.4 shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0 shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4 Trident 4DWave/SiS 7018/ALi 5451,Tvia CyberPro 5050 PCI Audio, version 0.14.10j-2.6, 14:18:54 May 12 2004 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004) usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 64 td 64 ohci_hcd 0000:00:0f.0: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller ohci_hcd 0000:00:0f.0: irq 10, pci mem d09a1000 ohci_hcd 0000:00:0f.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ohci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (#2) ohci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: irq 11, pci mem d0a61000 ohci_hcd 0000:00:14.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected eth2: New link status: Disconnected (0002) eth2: New link status: Connected (0001) serial8250: too much work for irq11 serial8250: too much work for irq11 NET: Registered protocol family 10 Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c02bb640(lo) IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac) apm: overridden by ACPI. lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x200-0x207 0x220-0x22f 0x330-0x337 0x388-0x38f cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. eth2: no IPv6 routers present eth0: no IPv6 routers present apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac) apm: overridden by ACPI. apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac) apm: overridden by ACPI. nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-6111 Tue Jul 27 07:55:38 PDT 2004 agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode