Fedora 9 Live Beta Locking up

[max bianco]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Jim <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>> 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 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
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