Re: DI on a Pavilion dv1074ea

[George Papamichelakis <george@step.gr>]

Joey Hess wrote:

> George Papamichelakis wrote:
>  
>
> > I'm using  a snapshot of DI (downloaded today from 
> > http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/i386/current)
> > to install on HP Pavilion notebook 1074ea .
> > Installation runs smoothly until the reboot (using kernel 2.6) where after
> > loading a module for audio i810 booting stops with :
> > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 
> > 00000024
> >    
>
> Append "emergency" to the kernel command line when booting ("linux
> emergency" will do), and then add a "skip i810_audio" to
> /etc/discover.conf and also add i810_audio to /etc/hotplug/blacklist,
> should fix it. (I think i810_audio is the relevant module.)
>
>  
The emergency helped a lot I can say , but  I wasn't able to to boot 
into the machine even with that .
Messing around  I found that disabling the hotplug init.d script did the 
trick, and now I have to find which
device is causing the trouble.

Anyway thanks a lot and may we all  have a happy new year

GP