<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Jim <<a href="mailto:mickeyboa@sbcglobal.net">mickeyboa@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">max bianco wrote:<br>
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> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Jim <<a href="mailto:mickeyboa@sbcglobal.net">mickeyboa@sbcglobal.net</a><br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:mickeyboa@sbcglobal.net">mickeyboa@sbcglobal.net</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> max wrote:<br>
> > Jim wrote:<br>
> >> Running Live CD Fedora 9 Live Beta, on a Laptop, while booting it<br>
> >> locks up just after the line;<br>
> >><br>
> >> "ACPI: EC: Lookup EC in DSDI"<br>
> >><br>
> >> I put CD in a PC and it ran all the way through and loaded<br>
> Desktop.<br>
> >> What is it on Laptop that would cause a Lockup??<br>
> >><br>
> > ACPI = Advanced Configuration and Power Interface<br>
> ><br>
> > The rest of the line is greek to me but you might try fiddling with<br>
> > the BIOS settings. You don't say what kind of laptop you have but<br>
> > sometimes BIOS features have to be turned off to get things off the<br>
> > ground. Don't quote me here but I think DSDI is related to<br>
> debugging<br>
> > so i would look for something related to this in the bios and try to<br>
> > disable it or enable it depending on its current status. You can<br>
> > always, if you get into trouble, restore defaults in the bios<br>
> and also<br>
> > there is usually a way to load optimal settings in the bios, which<br>
> > could solve your problem.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Max<br>
> ><br>
> I added to the , pass onto kernel line "acpi=off" and it started to<br>
> boot until it got to the point of detecting mouse,<br>
> is there any commands i can send to kernel to bypass mouse detection ?<br>
> Error message below;<br>
><br>
> "input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as<br>
> /devices/virtual/input/input0 PNP: no PS/2 controller found.<br>
> Probing ports directly."<br>
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> This laptop is a Everex Cloudbook and it has no PS/2 mouse connection,<br>
> if you want a external mouse you will have to connect to USB .<br>
> It amazing, this laptop has no problem booting into Fedora 8.<br>
> I would look at this as a bug, wouldn't you ??<br>
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> ...i'd say file a bugzilla but F9 is still not an official release so<br>
> it may be that it will get fixed before the final release. I would do<br>
> as suggested above and check with the fedora-test and devel mailing<br>
> list to see what they think or you could crack open that desktop linux<br>
> reference manual or try a different mouse. Many are willing to help<br>
> but generally if its not officially released yet then you will find<br>
> that people are less concerned because many issues will get resolved<br>
> before final release( or you hope so anyway) As for another parameter<br>
> you could pass at boot time , i don't know off hand, i'd have to look<br>
> up how to work around mouse detection but that i think may mean<br>
> runlevel 3 which is no gui anyway.<br>
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</div></div>It is my understanding you can report to <a href="http://bugzilla.redhat.com" target="_blank">bugzilla.redhat.com</a> but you<br>
select it as a "rawhide version"<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>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. <br><br>
Max<br> </div></div><br>