From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wesley T Allen Subject: boot hanging Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:08:25 -0500 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <1078970905.4761.6.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: acpi List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click