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[Rodd Clarkson]

On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 21:16 +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
> Build System wrote:
>   > kernel-2.6.13-1.1549_FC5
> > ------------------------
> > * Sat Sep 10 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
> > - 2.6.13-git10
> 
> When I boot with the kernels 1547 or 1549 and I get to the "Initializing 
> Hardware" bit the display vanishes after "audio" gets printed and my 
> monitor tells me that the frequency is out of range. The machine then 
> continues to boot normaly an as soon as XOrg comes up everything works 
> fine. When I shut down the machine again and it goes back to text mode I 
> get the signal frequency out of range error by my monitor again.
> Kernel 1530 did not show this behaviour (but does no longer work for me 
> since USB and network devices no longer work after the latest rawhide updates).

I couldn't even get 1549 to boot for me.  It gets as far as:

        Red Hat nash version 4.2.21 starting
        Going to resume from LABEL=SWAP-sda8

and then stops doing anything.  I'll try it again with this change set
(I pulled the kernel from Dave's site) just in case something other than
the kernel was causing the issue, but it was way to early in the boot
process for me to think there's much chance of that.

1547 and 1548 had issues with ipw2200 wireless cards and I need my
wireless card so these were unusable.  Also, NetworkManager didn't work
and when I disabled it and obtained a wired connection manually, the
route was missing a gateway that had to be added manually too.

1542 saw the wireless work, but not USB and it was very unstable.

> Is anybody else seeing this and/or has an idea for a workaround?

Use a different kernel ;-]

I'm currently on 1530 because USB and Wireless work for me on this.
Some on the list have reported good luck with 154[7-8].

I'm yet to update to this changeset (today's that is) since things have
been rough and I'm treading lightly.


Rodd
-- 
"It's a fine line between denial and faith.
 It's much better on my side"