Hello. Ive managed one more step towards a running Woody on my Dell Inspiron 5000....X is working, and I installed many packages last night :)
I need to configure now from the text-console, but something wickened happens: After about two minutes from console-login suddenly there's no more input from keyboard possible ! Even not the fnar 2--keys or ctrl-alt-Functions including Ctrl-alt--del. I had to turn off power several times and let e2fschk clean up the mess.... This didn't occur when I suspended kdm and logged in only a text-console. It seems not to happen 2 - 3 minutes after entering X , and it's sufficient only to reach the kdm-login. ( Package xfree86-common, Version 4.1. 0-16 ) Just now I'm writing this letter ( on another box ) I reached a 'frozen' text-console on the lap without any tty-login. So i suppose the 'freezing' happens after entering the kdm-login, and I only recognize it by changing to text-console with ctrl-alt-F1. The problem may be related to error-messages occuring immediateley after login. From different sources, they are: apm:get_event: interface not connected apm:set display: interface not found kernel:apm:set display: interface not connected kernel:apm:set suspend: interface not connected I ran the lap from 'line', without a battery plugged in. Freezing does not depend on APM dis/enabled in BIOS. I did enable APM in the kernel ( 2.4.18 custom ). I installed powermgmt-base, apmd 3.0.2 ( apm-bios 1.2 ), libapm1, and sleepd. But later I suspendet them all. Further on I experimented with the standard kernel-2.2.20 idepci in runlevel 1 ( single ). After starting kdm, the same failure, still no change. I didn't suspend noflushd yet. On several occasions I noticed a short HD-Action the second before the goodbye. I'm not sure if always, however. I feel rather helpless now. Does anybody could give me a hint ? ----------- Settings ( / = some stuff i changed for testing ) -------------- Dell Inspiron P III 600 mhz / 128 MB / 12 GB Kernel 2.4.18 ( custom ) / Kernel 2.2.20-idepci ( standard ) APM compiled in Kernel, but no ACPI BIOS A07: no matter if apm disabled / activated Video: XFree 4.1.0 Console is VGA+ 80x25 VCI v.100 agpgart seems to work properly No PnP-Plugins / PCMCIA-Cards plugged in yet. I installed makedev, and found a char-device /dev/apm_bios, and while I 'touched' it with mc, this conole gets frozen, but i was able to move to another. Few seconds later the whole system freezes 'regularly'.... TIA - -- michl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
