Fedora 7 Test Update: kernel-2.6.21-1.3255.fc7

[Paul Johnson]

On 7/7/07, dragoran <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> updates at fedoraproject.org wrote:
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Fedora Test Update Notification
> > FEDORA-2007-0926
> > 2007-07-06 11:11:15.946017
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Name        : kernel
> > Product     : Fedora 7
> > Version     : 2.6.21
> > Release     : 1.3255.fc7

My Dell Latitude D820 will not boot with this kernel unless I add the
option hpet=disable.  Otherwise, the startup gets to the place where
it says it found 2 CPUs and it lists out some iomem ports that are
unavailable, and it stops.  The system is locked up then, I don't know
of a way to save the output to show you. I do not think any entries
are added in /var/log/messages, but as I dig into the messages file, I
find lines that are similar to what is showing on the screen when the
startup dies.

Jul  7 16:52:21 pols126 kernel: pnp: 00:0b: iomem range
0xfed00000-0xfed003ff could not be reserved
Jul  7 16:52:21 pols126 kernel: pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0xcb0-0xcbb
has been reserved
Jul  7 16:52:21 pols126 kernel: pnp: 00:0d: iomem range
0xfed40000-0xfed44fff could not be reserved

On the good side, with hpet=disable, the system runs fine, and suspend
to RAM works in both level 3 and 5 with the Nvidia video proprietary
drivers and either iwl3945 or ipw3945.

So, again I say, what is this hpet pain in the ass all about?

-- 
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
University of Kansas