Fedora 9 Live Beta Locking up

max bianco maximilianbianco at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 19:13:42 UTC 2008


On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> max bianco wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
> > <mailto:mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
> >
> >     max bianco wrote:
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
> >     <mailto:mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net>
> >     > <mailto:mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
> >     <mailto:mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net>>> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >     max wrote:
> >     >     > Jim wrote:
> >     >     >> Running Live CD Fedora 9 Live Beta, on a Laptop, while
> >     booting it
> >     >     >> locks up just after the line;
> >     >     >>
> >     >     >> "ACPI: EC: Lookup EC in DSDI"
> >     >     >>
> >     >     >> I put CD in a  PC and it ran all the way through and loaded
> >     >     Desktop.
> >     >     >> What is it on Laptop that would cause  a Lockup??
> >     >     >>
> >     >     > ACPI = Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
> >     >     >
> >     >     > The rest of the line is greek to me but you might try
> >     fiddling with
> >     >     > the BIOS settings. You don't say what kind of laptop you
> >     have but
> >     >     > sometimes BIOS features have to be turned off to get
> >     things off the
> >     >     > ground. Don't quote me here but I think DSDI  is related to
> >     >     debugging
> >     >     > so i would look for something related to this in the bios
> >     and try to
> >     >     > disable it or enable it depending on its current status.
> >      You can
> >     >     > always, if you get into trouble, restore defaults in the
> bios
> >     >     and also
> >     >     > there is usually a way to load optimal settings in the
> >     bios, which
> >     >     > could solve your problem.
> >     >     >
> >     >     >
> >     >     > Max
> >     >     >
> >     >     I added to the , pass onto kernel line  "acpi=off" and it
> >     started to
> >     >     boot until it got to the point of detecting mouse,
> >     >     is there any commands i can send to kernel to bypass mouse
> >     detection ?
> >     >     Error message below;
> >     >
> >     >     "input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as
> >     >     /devices/virtual/input/input0  PNP: no PS/2 controller found.
> >     >     Probing ports directly."
> >     >
> >     >     This laptop is a Everex Cloudbook and it has no PS/2 mouse
> >     connection,
> >     >     if you want a external mouse you will have to connect to USB .
> >     >     It amazing, this laptop has no problem booting into Fedora 8.
> >     >     I would look at this as a bug, wouldn't you ??
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > ...i'd say file a bugzilla but F9 is still not an official
> >     release so
> >     > it may be that it will get fixed before the final release. I
> >     would do
> >     > as  suggested above and check with the fedora-test and devel
> mailing
> >     > list to see what they think or you could crack open that desktop
> >     linux
> >     > reference manual or try a different mouse. Many are willing to
> help
> >     > but generally if its not officially released yet then you will
> find
> >     > that people are less concerned because many issues will get
> resolved
> >     > before final release( or you hope so anyway) As for another
> >     parameter
> >     > you could pass at boot time , i don't know off hand, i'd have to
> >     look
> >     > up how to work around mouse detection but that i think may mean
> >     > runlevel 3 which is no gui anyway.
> >     >
> >     It is my understanding you can report to  bugzilla.redhat.com
> >     <http://bugzilla.redhat.com> but you
> >     select it as a "rawhide version"
> >
> >
> > Yes that's true but they are  having a hard  time keeping up with the
> > bugs as  is so that is why i suggested waiting for final release.
> >
> > Max
> >
> I don't know about that Max, read the message below.
> Thanks for your responds.
> Jim
>
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-March/msg00011.html
>

No problem. Recently someone posted about the back log of bugs so i thought
why file one more if it can wait but if they asked for it................
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