Re: IRQ Conflicts ?
> Erik, would you perhaps explain therefore to me why almost 60% of the
> hardware in my laptop ceases to function if I run a 2.4 kernel, but work
> flawlessly with a 2.2 kernel (2.2.20 basline debian is my currently
> version).
This might be an interesting point! Me neither, I've never succeeded to
run a 2.4 series kernel succesfully on a laptop (this is only my second
one, so it is hard to generalize:-).
Some more details for the interested readers :-)...
My previous laptop was a Toshiba Satellite 1640CDT. I tried several
versions and configurations of the 2.4 series, but none of them ran
smoothly on the hardware. Always crashes, never found anything in the
logs, never got a ksymoops :-(
My new one is a Dell latitude C810. I got _everything_ out of the 2.4.17
kernel, until I stayed with the bare necessities, tried with or without
apm, with or without acpi, but nothing worked out :-(.
Even the event of plugging the laptop from battery to AC and vice versa
got me a crash everytime, with all of the above configurations...
Yesterday evening I decided to patch the good old 2.2.20 with ext3, and
since then, no more problems...
I know the information above is too succint to be able to diagnose the
problem, but I've read through many of the kernel's Changelogs to figure
out what could be the problem and never found anything that I presumed to
be responsable for the "phantom"-crashes.
I wonder whether there are people with the same (or contrasting :-)
experiences with 2.4 kernels on their laptops.
klaas
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