2.6.24.3-34 Crashes

[Jim]

Anders Karlsson wrote:
> * Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> [20080318 01:51]:
>   
>> F8 i386
>> If I put acpi=off in menu-lst , as such rhgb quite  acpi=off   and I 
>> reboot, when it gets to "Uncompressing Linux ..OK Booting the kernel"   I 
>> get a long repeating of:
>>
>> Unknown bus type 4
>>             "
>>             "
>>             "
>>
>> About 10 lines of same and then the boot process "Locks Up" , If I reboot 
>> by a earlier Kernel and remove  acpi=off from menu-lst and reboot 
>> 2.6.24.3-34 , it completes booting and goes into Desktop.
>>     
>
> To test things like this, you know you can interrupt Grub at boot and
> by using 'e' you can edit a boot entry so you can add options like
> this to test. Rather than edit something in to grub.conf that later
> prevents system from booting I mean.
>
>   
>> Is acpi=off a no no in Fedora anymore.
>>     
>
> Running with ACPI off on most modern systems is going to pose
> problems. While you can try it, I would caution that it likely will
> not work very well, if at all.
>
>   
>> I 'm having a couple of problems with audio and webcam working and I wanted 
>> to see if  acpi=off  would make any difference
>>     
>
> What rationale do you have for thinking it was ACPI that caused the
> problem? :)
>
> HTH,
>
> /Anders
>
>   
It just a wild guess , but I have a Webcam and Audio that won't work, 
the drivers for each device are loading at boot, so I though I would 
just try acpi=off to see if that would help.