boot hanging

Hi,
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question; if I'm off-base
could someone point me in the right direction?

I have an hp pavilion laptop (an n5000 series, build-to-order) and have
had problems with acpi under linux. in the 2.4.x series the system would hang with an error "keventd not started" every now and again. I would let it sit for a couple of seconds (making sure the hd had spun down), and then I'd reboot. Sometimes I would have to do this a couple of times, but it was no big deal.
I compiled 2.6.0 on my own when it came out (because the acpi support
was better), and I could NEVER get it to boot. So I gave up for a while, until I got Mandrake 10.0 community installed on my laptop. The kernel is 2.6.3 and I just can't get the thing to boot with acpi enabled at all (well, once in about 50 attempts I think). This is a bit of a bummer, considering that I can't get usb devices to work with my laptop w/o acpi enabled! Does anyone have a workaround? And what other information would be helpful in troubleshooting?

Thanks gang, one of the things I love about OSS is that the developers are people you can talk to, and I end up learning how to help the development process AND other users.

Wes

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pci=noacpi helps?

if so, it is an ACPI interrupt configuration bug (which you're encouraged to file on bugzilla.kernel.org;-)

thanks,
-Len

Quoted 36 lines · Wesley T Allen

Hi,
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question; if I'm off-base
could someone point me in the right direction?

I have an hp pavilion laptop (an n5000 series, build-to-order) and have
had problems with acpi under linux. in the 2.4.x series the system would hang with an error "keventd not started" every now and again. I would let it sit for a couple of seconds (making sure the hd had spun down), and then I'd reboot. Sometimes I would have to do this a couple of times, but it was no big deal.
I compiled 2.6.0 on my own when it came out (because the acpi support
was better), and I could NEVER get it to boot. So I gave up for a while, until I got Mandrake 10.0 community installed on my laptop. The kernel is 2.6.3 and I just can't get the thing to boot with acpi enabled at all (well, once in about 50 attempts I think). This is a bit of a bummer, considering that I can't get usb devices to work with my laptop w/o acpi enabled! Does anyone have a workaround? And what other information would be helpful in troubleshooting?

Thanks gang, one of the things I love about OSS is that the developers are people you can talk to, and I end up learning how to help the development process AND other users.

Wes

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