On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Antonio Ricardo Soares da Silva Correia wrote: > Richard, perhaps you are right in what concerns the ATI 7000 but that > doesn't explain why my system works flawlessly with the other > distributions and only fails with (K)Ubuntu. Oddly enough, now, even the > plain 686 kernels don´t work in my machine. I´ve tried all since I > installed Dapper and they freeze in X like the SMP ones. I wonder if > they have merged 686 and 686_SMP kernels because I had one running for > about 2 minutes before freezing and gkrellm indicated 2 processors what > it only does with the SMP version of the kernel. So as you might guess, > since Dapper was released I'm forced to use the 386 kernels and keep > wondering why this just happens with (K)Ubuntu and not with the other > dists. What are they doing wrong? > > Yes, I, too, am able to run the SMP kernels from other distros. But as I demonstrated, it's clearly an interaction between the X server, specifically the ATI driver, and the kernel. Possibly those other distros are still using XFree86, and haven't made the switch to xorg? Would you do a little testing? Perform the checks that I described earlier:
1) run `lspci`, and post the result line that describes your video card. 2) Reboot the system with the 686 kernel, to a console prompt, as I described earlier: a) go to 'system settings/system services', and turn off kdm in runlevel 3. b) edit /etc/inittab and change the initital default runlevel from 5 to 3 c) reboot, selecting the 686 kernel from the grub menu d) Login, and play around enough to satisfy yourself that the kernel alone is stable. e) Issue the command `startx` and report the results. It might also be informative if a Gnome user with a 686SMP/Radeon7000 system would chime in with their experiences... -- Fail to boot smp kernel https://launchpad.net/bugs/24533 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
