Installation problem

[ttellefsen]

I am installing MDL 9.2 and have an issue during startup that I cannot resolve. The installation goes fine as I set everything up, however, as the machine reboots for the first time, it seems to freeze at the "detecting new hardware" step. Eventually it will go through anywhere from 10-15 minutes later, but I do not have mouse or keyboard support.

Reboot after reboot after reboot, it may come up fine and everything will work fine. The next boot usually produces the error again. I have tried to reinstall the distribution numorous times with the same results. Please help.

[fuzzylizard]

In order to give you any kind of answer, the following information is needed: Motherboard, cpu, hard drive, video card, basically list all the hardware in your computer.

 

In addition, where did you get the CD's from -- did you burn them from ISO's that you downloaded or are they of the bought variety? If the CD's were burned from ISO's, did you do a md5 checksum of the ISO's before you burned them to CD?

 

When you did the install, what did the configuration screen at the end of the install say? Was all of your hardware detected and configured properly? Or were they things that were missing?

 

Also, when you reboot your computer, before it gets to the point of checking for new hardware, can you do a Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch to another screen to see any error messages? (Not sure if this is possible, but worth a try)

 

Anyway, provide more detail and you will most likely get a better response.

[Ixthusdan]

Yes more info please. In the absence of information, you are describing a problem that occurs with the presence of zip drives and some usb devices. So, hardware and also if you could post the contents of /etc/lilo.conf and /etc fstab, a better explanation will present itself. :lol:

[ttellefsen]

Okay...I'll get all that info for you and post it here soon. Thanks.

[ttellefsen]

Okay: FuzzyLizard, here's your request.

I have a Gigabyte Mother Board GA-7VRX with a VIA KT333 AGP Chipset, An Athlon 2100xp+ 1.7GHz. 512 Mb of Kingston DDR (KVR133x64SC3/256) x 2. Two hardrives One a Quantum Fireball ct 15 30. The other a Western Digital WD200AA. Video card is an Nvidia riva TNT2 64. Sound Card is a Creative Soundblaster AudioPCI64/128. Acton SMC2-1211TX Network card (not used). A Compaq CDR/RW and DVD reader. I have a Microsoft Intellimouse explorer USB. A compaq internet Keyboard USB and a Linksys WUSB11 Wireless network adapter. HPOfficejet 710 Printer Via LPT1.

The Distibution is a download edition of MDL 9,2. I burned them Via ISO using the Nero directions. Worked fine. No MD5 checksum was done. I do not understand what they are for or how to use them. As far as knowing if everything installed correctly, to me , it appears that way. We know something is wrong though. I have noticed after rebooting at some point it says something to the effect Insmod; Inmod; failed loading EHCI or something to that effect twice. Note: I have disabled harddrake in order via CHKCONFIG to allow the system to work. It hangs on detecting hardware. Here is my Dmesg

[thor@localhost thor]$ dmesg

Linux version 2.4.22-10mdk (nplanel@no.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 3.3.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-2mdk)) #1 Thu Sep 18 12:30:58 CEST 2003

BIOS-provided physical RAM map:

BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)

BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)

BIOS-e820: 00000000000ca000 - 00000000000d0000 (reserved)

BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)

BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001fff0000 (usable)

BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0000 - 000000001fff8000 (ACPI data)

BIOS-e820: 000000001fff8000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI NVS)

BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)

BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)

BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)

511MB LOWMEM available.

ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000

found SMP MP-table at 000fb9b0

hm, page 000fb000 reserved twice.

hm, page 000fc000 reserved twice.

hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice.

hm, page 000f7000 reserved twice.

On node 0 totalpages: 131056

zone(0): 4096 pages.

zone(1): 126960 pages.

zone(2): 0 pages.

ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI ) @ 0x000fa800

ACPI: RSDT (v001 AMIINT AMIINI09 0x00000010 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x1fff0000

ACPI: FADT (v001 AMIINT AMIINI09 0x00000011 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x1fff0030

ACPI: MADT (v001 AMIINT AMIINI09 0x00000011 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x1fff00c0

ACPI: DSDT (v001 VIA VIA_K7 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000

ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000

ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)

Processor #0 Pentium Pro APIC version 16

Using ACPI for processor (LAPIC) configuration information

Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4

Virtual Wire compatibility mode.

OEM ID: GIGABYTE Product ID: 7VRX APIC at: 0xFEE00000

I/O APIC #2 Version 2 at 0xFEC00000.

Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs

Processors: 1

Building zonelist for node : 0

Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=341 devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=ht splash=silent

ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi

bootsplash: silent mode.

Initializing CPU#0

Detected 1733.441 MHz processor.

Console: colour dummy device 80x25

Calibrating delay loop... 3460.30 BogoMIPS

Memory: 514640k/524224k available (1508k kernel code, 9196k reserved, -1961k data, 156k init, 0k highmem, 0k BadRAM)

Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)

Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)

Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)

Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)

CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)

CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)

Intel machine check architecture supported.

Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.

CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000

CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000

CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2100+ stepping 02

Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.

Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.

Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.

POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX

enabled ExtINT on CPU#0

ESR value before enabling vector: 00000080

ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000

ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs

Setting 2 in the phys_id_present_map

...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok.

init IO_APIC IRQs

IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-10, 2-11, 2-19, 2-20, 2-22, 2-23 not connected.

..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=0

number of MP IRQ sources: 24.

number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24.

testing the IO APIC.......................

 

IO APIC #2......

.... register #00: 02000000

....... : physical APIC id: 02

....... : Delivery Type: 0

....... : LTS : 0

.... register #01: 00178002

....... : max redirection entries: 0017

....... : PRQ implemented: 1

....... : IO APIC version: 0002

.... IRQ redirection table:

NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:

00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00

01 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39

02 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31

03 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41

04 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49

05 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51

06 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59

07 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61

08 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69

09 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 71

0a 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00

0b 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00

0c 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79

0d 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81

0e 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89

0f 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91

10 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 99

11 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A1

12 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A9

13 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00

14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00

15 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B1

16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00

17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00

IRQ to pin mappings:

IRQ0 -> 0:2

IRQ1 -> 0:1

IRQ3 -> 0:3

IRQ4 -> 0:4

IRQ5 -> 0:5

IRQ6 -> 0:6

IRQ7 -> 0:7

IRQ8 -> 0:8

IRQ9 -> 0:9

IRQ12 -> 0:12

IRQ13 -> 0:13

IRQ14 -> 0:14

IRQ15 -> 0:15

IRQ16 -> 0:16

IRQ17 -> 0:17

IRQ18 -> 0:18

IRQ21 -> 0:21

.................................... done.

Using local APIC timer interrupts.

calibrating APIC timer ...

..... CPU clock speed is 1733.3964 MHz.

..... host bus clock speed is 266.6763 MHz.

cpu: 0, clocks: 2666763, slice: 1333381

CPU0<T0:2666752,T1:1333360,D:11,S:1333381,C:2666763>

mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)

mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel

ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030813

ACPI: Interpreter disabled.

PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb01, last bus=1

PCI: Using configuration type 1

PCI: Probing PCI hardware

PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries

PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)

PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/3147] at 00:11.0

PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I10,P0) -> 18

PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I12,P0) -> 16

PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I13,P0) -> 17

PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I17,P0) -> 16

PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I17,P3) -> 21

PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I17,P3) -> 21

PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I20,P0) -> 16

PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I20,P1) -> 17

PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I20,P2) -> 18

PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B1,I0,P0) -> 16

PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 00:11.2, from 10 to 5

PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 00:11.3, from 10 to 5

PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 00:14.0, from 11 to 0

PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 00:14.1, from 11 to 1

isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...

isapnp: No Plug & Play device found

Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4

Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039

Initializing RT netlink socket

apm: BIOS not found.

Starting kswapd

kinoded started

VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1

devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)

devfs: boot_options: 0x1

vesafb: framebuffer at 0xda000000, mapped to 0xe0800000, size 1875k

vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=3

vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:0336

vesafb: scrolling: redraw

vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0

Looking for splash picture.... silenjpeg size 107888 bytes, found (800x600, 107840 bytes, v3).

Got silent jpeg.

Got silent jpeg.

Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 92x32

fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device

pty: 1024 Unix98 ptys configured

Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled

ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A

ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A

Redundant entry in serial pci_table. Please send the output of

lspci -vv, this message (134d,7897,134d,0001)

and the manufacturer and name of serial board or modem board

to serial-pci-info@lists.sourceforge.net.

register_serial(): autoconfig failed

RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4

ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx

VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:11.1

VP_IDE: chipset revision 6

VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later

VP_IDE: VIA vt8233a (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci00:11.1

ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA

ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA

hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct15 30, ATA DISK drive

hdb: WDC WD200AA, ATA DISK drive

blk: queue c0180d20, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)

blk: queue c0180e5c, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)

hdc: COMPAQ DVD-ROM SD-612B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

hdd: R/RW 4x4x32, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14

ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15

hda: attached ide-disk driver.

hda: host protected area => 1

hda: 58633344 sectors (30020 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=3649/255/63, UDMA(66)

hdb: attached ide-disk driver.

hdb: host protected area => 1

hdb: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=2434/255/63, UDMA(66)

Partition check:

/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1

/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 >

ide: late registration of driver.

md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27

md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.

md: autorun ...

md: ... autorun DONE.

Initializing Cryptographic API

NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0

IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP

IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes

TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)

Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM

NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.

Swsusp 1.0.3: Missing or invalid swap partition location (resume= parameter). Disabled.

RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0

Freeing initrd memory: 300k freed

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).

Mounted devfs on /dev

Journalled Block Device driver loaded

EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.

EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.

kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds

EXT3-fs: recovery complete.

EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

Mounted devfs on /dev

Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed

Got silent jpeg.

Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e

usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs

usb.c: registered new driver hub

usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 12:42:04 Sep 18 2003

usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled

usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xe000, IRQ 21

usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports

usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1

hub.c: USB hub found

hub.c: 2 ports detected

usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xdc00, IRQ 21

usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports

usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2

hub.c: USB hub found

hub.c: 2 ports detected

usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd800, IRQ 16

usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports

usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3

hub.c: USB hub found

hub.c: 2 ports detected

usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 17

usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports

usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4

hub.c: USB hub found

hub.c: 2 ports detected

usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver

ehci_hcd 00:14.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0

ehci_hcd 00:14.2: irq 18, pci mem e0a97e00

usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5

ehci_hcd 00:14.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 0.95, driver 2003-Jun-19/2.4

hub.c: USB hub found

hub.c: 4 ports detected

usbdevfs: remount parameter error

Splash status on console 0 changed to on

hub.c: new USB device 00:11.2-1, assigned address 2

usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x49f/0xe) is not claimed by any active driver.

hub.c: new USB device 00:11.2-2, assigned address 3

usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x45e/0x1e) is not claimed by any active driver.

hub.c: new USB device 00:11.3-1, assigned address 2

usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x77b/0x2219) is not claimed by any active driver.

usb.c: registered new driver usbkbd

usb.c: registered new driver usbvnetr

input0: Compaq Compaq Internet Keyboard on usb1:2.0

usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver

usb.c: registered new driver hiddev

usb vendor/product=77b/2219

usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 313

Reg Domain

usbvnetr: driver version 1.0.1, compiled Sep 18 2003 12:38:17 (dbg_mask x0)

MAC addr 00:06:25:0D:37:E8 firmware 1.101.2.84

EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,65), internal journal

Multicast is enabled

../src/usb/vnetusba.c: usb eth0 initialized and registered

usb.c: registered new driver hid

usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 641

Adding Swap: 506008k swap-space (priority -1)

input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft IntelliMouse® Explorer] on usb1:3.0

hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>

hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers

mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

at76c503.c: Generic Atmel at76c503/at76c505 routines v0.11beta4

usbdfu.c: USB Device Firmware Upgrade (DFU) handler v0.11beta4

usb.c: registered new driver usbdfu

at76c503-rfmd.c: Atmel at76c503 (RFMD) Wireless LAN Driver v0.11beta4

usb.c: registered new driver at76c503-rfmd

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REASSOCIATION RESPONSE

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REASSOCIATION RESPONSE

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SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00

hdd: attached ide-scsi driver.

scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices

Vendor: IDE-CD Model: R/RW 4x4x32 Rev: C1.7

Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02

hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.

hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, DMA

Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12

kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds

EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,70), internal journal

EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

NTFS driver 2.1.4a [Flags: R/O MODULE].

NTFS volume version 3.1.

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REASSOCIATION RESPONSE

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es1371: version v0.32 time 12:41:33 Sep 18 2003

es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x09

es1371: found es1371 rev 9 at io 0xec00 irq 18

es1371: features: joystick 0x0

ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: CRY19 (Cirrus Logic CS4297A rev A)

parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]

parport0: irq 7 detected

parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet Series 700

lp0: using parport0 (polling).

inserting floppy driver for 2.4.22-10mdk

Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M

FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077

Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray

Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 14470 bytes, v3).

Splash status on console 0 changed to on

Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 14470 bytes, v3).

Splash status on console 1 changed to on

Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 14470 bytes, v3).

Splash status on console 2 changed to on

Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 14470 bytes, v3).

Splash status on console 3 changed to on

Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 14470 bytes, v3).

Splash status on console 4 changed to on

Looking for splash picture.... found (800x600, 14470 bytes, v3).

Splash status on console 5 changed to on

[thor@localhost thor]$

[ttellefsen]

LXTHUSDAN, Here is what you asked for.

 

See post above for inventory...

I do not have /etc/lilo.conf

I do not have /etc/fstab.

 

I believe your on to something with the USB. Sometimes the machine boots and my keyboard and mouse do not work. Other times the WUSB11. won't work but the mouse will.

I have harddrake diabled to stop the hardware check. My AMI BIOS won't support PNP on/off. I tried that. Also, I seem to have lost the ability to have the machine turn off after logging off using the shutdown option. I checked the services under Control center. APCI is stopped and it won't allow me to start it.

Let me know what you think.

[bvc]

-disable acpi and acpid with chkconfig

-make sure apmd is installed and enabled with chkconfig

 

-boot with

linux noapic acpi=off

Edited January 21, 2004 by bvc

[ttellefsen]

BVC...Would you provide a quick explanation of what ACPI and APIC do. I think i am confused. APMD is power management . Right?

Are you saying at root type CHKCONFIG APMD ON? How do I install it if it is not? I have searched the RPM section in the MCC under all you listed and cannot find anything. Thanks

[bvc]

ACPI=Advanced Central Power Interface (if I remember rt, lol)

APIC=Advanced Program Interupt Controller (if I remember rt, lol)

APM=Advanced Power Management (D for daemon....just means it runs in the background to do its job)

 

A quick google will tell ya exactly ;)

 

Well, yes, maybe (as root)

rpm -q apmd (to tell you if installed)

 

urpmi apmd (to install if it's not. It'll then be turned on at boot by default, or use to)

 

chkconfig --list (will show you the status of all services)

service -s (also list the status but for a different more temporary function -til reboot)

service name_of_service start (to start, or stop to stop)

 

see:

man rpm

rpm --help

man urpmi

urpmi --help

service --help (and man)

chkconfig --help (and man)

and the others listed at the bottom of the man <name>

 

BTW, I ran 9.1 and 9.2 with noapic acpi=off with this Abit KD7 VIA KT400 MoBo until I started running the very new kernel-2.6. If that is your concern. You 'should' be able to safely just run apmd.

Edited January 21, 2004 by bvc

[ttellefsen]

Well today my Linux system is down.. The mouse and the keyboard will not work. Not much I can do without it. Anyone have any suggestions?

[ttellefsen]

Ixthusdan,

I guess i didn't know what I was looking for with the files you wanted to see the contents on. My apologies.... I was looking for a directory noot the file. Here are the contents you requested.

/etc/fstab

/dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,sync,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0

 

/etc/lilo.conf

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
default="linux"
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hdb1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=ht splash=silent"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux-nonfb"
root=/dev/hdb1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=ht"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hdb1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=nomount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=ht failsafe"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label="windows"
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/fd0
label="floppy"
unsafe

[ttellefsen]

BVC,

I have tried everthing in your reply to no avail. I read around on the APMD issue and I found a post that said the kernel may not have been configured with APM.

I forget which conmand I typed, but it said something to the affect of "Service not supported by kernel"

How do i fix this?

[bvc]

apm and acpi have been in probably every mandrake kernel since the bug fixed ML9.1's. What is the exact errror? Could be a normal message. See, the kernel loads the first it finds but apm by default. It will, in all my experience, only load acpi IF acpi=on is given to the kernel from the bootloader and acpi and acpid are installed and set to run at boot. On some machines apmd is needed with acpi, others it's not. I have apmd disabled and currently uninstalled. I can put acpi=off in the bootloader and neither will load and I will get some error at boot. Point is, neither being loaded should not prevent your sys from booting or your mouse and keyboard from working. But who knows, the kernel can be weird depending on the machine. Have you tried a ps/2 mouse and keyboard?

Edited January 23, 2004 by bvc

[ttellefsen]

BVC,

For some reason I cannot get PS/2 Preph's to work on this. I checked BIOS. I have plugged them in and now effect. They don't even light up.

What I did do is change to my keyboard from the compaq internet keyboard to a Microshaft natural USB. Problem with Keyboard and mouse gone. I think it may be the driver. Should I just use a generic one? Unfortunatly I cannot keep this keyboard, so I have to fix the problem.

 

The power down problem still remains. I found through services thar ACPI was not loaded via RPM. I loaded it. I enable ACPI through the MCC boot option. There is also an option to "forcw no APIC" That is not enabled. What is it? Should I diable it? I'll try any way to see if there is any change. I have even changed the /etc/lilo.config Append to APM=on. Ineach LILO option and ran LILO to write changes. No change in power down state. I'm lost. Anything I can post here to help?

[ttellefsen]

BVC,

I was able to reproduce the error from above;

[root@localhost thor]# modprobe apm
modprobe: Can't locate module apm
[root@localhost thor]#
[root@localhost thor]# /sbin/modprobe apm
modprobe: Can't locate module apm
[root@localhost thor]#

I doesn't appear the module is loaded. Would you please help with this?