Inspiron 5000 text-console freezing, somehow linked to X ?
Hello.
Ive managed one more step towards a running Woody on my Dell Inspiron
5000....X is working, and I installed many packages last night :)
I need to configure now from the text-console,
but something wickened happens:
After about two minutes from console-login suddenly there's no more input
from keyboard possible !
Even not the fnar 2--keys or ctrl-alt-Functions including Ctrl-alt--del.
I had to turn off power several times and let e2fschk clean up the mess....
This didn't occur when I suspended kdm and logged in only a text-console.
It seems not to happen 2 - 3 minutes after entering X , and it's sufficient
only to reach the kdm-login. ( Package xfree86-common, Version 4.1. 0-16 )
Just now I'm writing this letter ( on another box ) I reached a 'frozen'
text-console on the lap without any tty-login.
So i suppose the 'freezing' happens after entering the kdm-login, and I only
recognize it by changing to text-console with ctrl-alt-F1.
The problem may be related to error-messages occuring immediateley after
login. From different sources, they are:
apm:get_event: interface not connected
apm:set display: interface not found
kernel:apm:set display: interface not connected
kernel:apm:set suspend: interface not connected
I ran the lap from 'line', without a battery plugged in.
Freezing does not depend on APM dis/enabled in BIOS.
I did enable APM in the kernel ( 2.4.18 custom ).
I installed powermgmt-base, apmd 3.0.2 ( apm-bios 1.2 ), libapm1, and sleepd.
But later I suspendet them all. Further on I experimented with the standard
kernel-2.2.20 idepci in runlevel 1 ( single ). After starting kdm, the same
failure, still no change.
I didn't suspend noflushd yet. On several occasions I noticed a short
HD-Action the second before the goodbye. I'm not sure if always, however.
I feel rather helpless now. Does anybody could give me a hint ?
----------- Settings ( / = some stuff i changed for testing ) --------------
Dell Inspiron P III 600 mhz / 128 MB / 12 GB
Kernel 2.4.18 ( custom ) / Kernel 2.2.20-idepci ( standard )
APM compiled in Kernel, but no ACPI
BIOS A07: no matter if apm disabled / activated
Video:
XFree 4.1.0
Console is VGA+ 80x25
VCI v.100
agpgart seems to work properly
No PnP-Plugins / PCMCIA-Cards plugged in yet.
I installed makedev, and found a char-device /dev/apm_bios, and while I
'touched' it with mc, this conole gets frozen, but i was able to move to
another. Few seconds later the whole system freezes 'regularly'....
TIA -
--
michl
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