Hello Martin, On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 11:44:48 +0100, Martin Wegmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I installed debian (netinstall) on a T61 Thinkpad which worked fine until > I booted my system after the installation. Did you installed Etch or Testing ?
> The monitor turns blank after a few seconds and the system did not respond > anymore. It tooks me a few reboots to read the last error message. Can you boot in single-user mode ? What graphic adapter do have (Intel or Nvidia) ? $ lspci -nn | grep -E "(VGA|Display)" Which xorg video drivier do you use (vesa, intel, nv from xorg or proprietary one ...) Which Desktop environement (Gnome, KDE...) Is DRI enabled ? $ grep /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep DRI > ... > setting Advanced Power Management level to 0xfe (254) > hda: drive_cmd: status=8x51 (DriveReady SekkCompleter Error) > hda: drive_cmd: error=8x84 (AbortedCommand) > ???. failed opcode ??: 8xef > ??IO_Drive_CMD failed: Input/output error /dev/hda is probably your cdrom. try $cat /proc/ide/hda/model mine says "HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD DRIVE GCC-4247N"... which is a DVD ;) - Try ejecting the "CDROM", and check if the errors occurs again. - In the BIOS, have you configured SATA as "compatible" or "AHCI" mode ? > I couldn't read the ? parts but if they are important I can reboot again > and try to read it before the screen turns blank. > > I found some hits with the similar error messages but not during boot or > after the first boot at all. > > Any idea how to solve this? Reinstall debian from another media? T61 are > supported as far as I know (lots of pages describing the installation). Testing/Lenny has better T61 harware support than Etch/Stable, but Lenny/Testing it self isn't as stable as... Etch/Stable ! Franklin Piat -- http://www.klabs.be/~fpiat/linux/debian/Etch_on_Thinkpad_T61.html http://www.klabs.be/~fpiat/linux/debian/Lenny_on_Thinkpad_T61.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
