boot hanging

[Wesley T Allen <wezlo-Wuw85uim5zDR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>]

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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