Fwd: Re: Two problems on C3000 with latest 2.6.x autobuild kernel

["J. L. Lee" <jllee@singnet.com.sg>]

> Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 12:51:27 +0800
> To: "Erik Heckers" <erik.heckers@web.de>
> From: "J. L. Lee" <jllee@singnet.com.sg>
> Subject: Re: Two problems on C3000 with latest 2.6.x autobuild kernel
>
> Hi Erik,
>
> On Problem B - (Don't know exactly I am using RC2 or RC3, how to tell? I 
> am using 2.6.8-2.32 kernel built on 17 May on an HP 9000/785/B2000).
>
> I too came across the same Kernel panic msg. I overcame it by mounting the 
> CD-ROM to /cdrom or /media/cdrom or /media/cdrom0. There is no /mnt 
> although you can see it when you list the root directory - "ls /". But if 
> you do a '"ls -l /mnt" you get "No such file or directory" msg.
>
> Cheers,
> JL
>
>
> At 01:50 AM 5/24/2005 +0200, you wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I have installed my C3000 using the RC2 version of sarge (netinst iso-image).
> > [RC3 didn't work, kernel hangs at sym0: scsi driver, see this mailing 
> > list ...]
> >
> > I wanted to upgrade to the latest 2.6.x kernel to see if the SCSI 
> > problems of the
> > RC3 kernel (2.6.8) are solved.
> >
> > So I have installed the following  prebuild 'c3000' kernel:
> > http://cvs.parisc-linux.org/download/linux-2.6/autobuild/c3000_defconfig/palinux-c3000-defconfig-2.6.12-rc4-pa5_0-2_all.deb
> >
> > I'm experiencing two problems with this kernel:
> >
> > ### Problem A
> > Cannot login on local console(s) (tty1,tty2,...,tty6)
> >
> > I have also enabled ttyS0 which works (serial cable to another PC).
> > When I restart getty on tty1 I get a new login on tty1, so I think the 
> > problem is that the
> > input of my USB keyboard is ignored somehow.
> > According to the 'dmesg' output everything looks ok, the output tells me 
> > that the
> > keyboard is correctly detected as a USB-HID device.
> > (I tried a non-HP USB keyboard with the same result...)
> >
> > Is there anything else I have to change to make a USB keyboard work with 
> > a 2.6.x kernel?
> >
> > When using the old RC2-2.4.x kernel I can do a 'cat /dev/input/eventX' 
> > and get some
> > garbage when pressing the buttons on the USB keyboard - looks good.
> > But when using the 2.6.12-rc4 kernel I get some message like 
> > '/dev/input/eventX - no such device'.
> > (I currently cannot give you the exact error message because of problem B 
> > ...).
> >
> > ### Problem B
> > A simple
> > mount /dev/hda /mnt
> > causes a kernel panic.
> > /dev/hda is my IDE-CD drive. As far as I have seen the support for IDE-CD 
> > is built into the kernel.
> > (Again it works fine with RC2-2.4.x  kernel)
> >
> >
> > Are there any known issues with missing a '2.4.x environment' with a 
> > 2.6.x kernel, so the errors
> > are somehow related to my setup and the kernel is the wrong one to blame 
> > here?
> >
> > Erik
> >
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