X freeze with kernels 2.6.6-X (solved)

Mike Fedyk mfedyk at matchmail.com
Mon Jun 28 20:55:14 UTC 2004


Marco Coli wrote:
> Jerry wrote:
> 
>> Please post the sub revision level of the kernels you are using and your
>> kernel boot parameters.  Can you get any error messages in the kernel
>> logs?
> 
> 
> As I stated before, the problems are present with all 2.6.6-X kernels 
> officially released on fedora channels. I tried every subversion 
> released. No problems with 2.6.5-X, all subversions.
> 
> My boot parameters (I include som lines from my grub.conf file):
> 
> [...]
> title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
>         root (hd0,1)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=/dev/vg00/lvol0 rhgb quiet 
> vga=791
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
> [...]
> title Fedora Core (2.6.6-1.435)
>         root (hd0,1)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.6-1.435 ro root=/dev/vg00/lvol0 rhgb 
> acpi=off vga=791
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.6-1.435.img
> 
> 
> Note the acpi=off option, essential for me, to boot with any 2.6.6-X 
> kernel without freeze.
> 
> I carefully examined kernel logs after freezing, but I didn't see any 
> unusual string. Maybe there wasn't enough time for syslog to write 
> errors before freezing?

I'll have to try this on my home system.  I doubt it is even using acpi 
though since it is a AMD K6 350 based system, and one particular screen 
saver.

Mike





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