On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 06:33 -0400, trouble daemon wrote: > Ben, > > > Another option that may be worth trying is 'noapic'. > > Wow, that worked just fine actually on 2.6.26 stock kernel. Thanks a lot! > > I am curious though, what in the world changed since 2.6.18 and lower > versions that might have required noapic? I've seen the option needed > by so many people on many occasions, but I've never needed it until > now. Any ideas? BTW, I also attached the dmesg for 2.6.26 working just > for reference to anyone else who might stumble upon this bug, and for > your curiosity as well. I'm afraid I don't know much about interrupt routing so I don't think I can get useful information out of it. I see that you also wrote to LKML and that you found an older message about this problem by Andrew Morton. If you want to get his attention you should really cc him rather than just invoking him! > > You need to get the corresponding linux-base package from testing or > > experimental, but the other dependencies should be satisfiable in lenny. > > FWIW, I did try grab linux-base too, but it then wanted to pull in a > bunch of other packages to do with perl and stuff, so I just opted to > recompile using the config and the source package and backport it > manually with less hassle (assuming 5 hour compiles are less hassle > lol). [...] All the dependencies of linux-base are available in lenny; see <http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/linux-base>. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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