Fedora 9 Live Beta Locking up

[Jim]

max bianco wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net 
> <mailto:mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
>
>     max bianco wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
>     <mailto:mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net>
>     > <mailto:mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
>     <mailto:mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     max wrote:
>     >     > Jim wrote:
>     >     >> Running Live CD Fedora 9 Live Beta, on a Laptop, while
>     booting it
>     >     >> locks up just after the line;
>     >     >>
>     >     >> "ACPI: EC: Lookup EC in DSDI"
>     >     >>
>     >     >> I put CD in a  PC and it ran all the way through and loaded
>     >     Desktop.
>     >     >> What is it on Laptop that would cause  a Lockup??
>     >     >>
>     >     > ACPI = Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
>     >     >
>     >     > The rest of the line is greek to me but you might try
>     fiddling with
>     >     > the BIOS settings. You don't say what kind of laptop you
>     have but
>     >     > sometimes BIOS features have to be turned off to get
>     things off the
>     >     > ground. Don't quote me here but I think DSDI  is related to
>     >     debugging
>     >     > so i would look for something related to this in the bios
>     and try to
>     >     > disable it or enable it depending on its current status.
>      You can
>     >     > always, if you get into trouble, restore defaults in the bios
>     >     and also
>     >     > there is usually a way to load optimal settings in the
>     bios, which
>     >     > could solve your problem.
>     >     >
>     >     >
>     >     > Max
>     >     >
>     >     I added to the , pass onto kernel line  "acpi=off" and it
>     started to
>     >     boot until it got to the point of detecting mouse,
>     >     is there any commands i can send to kernel to bypass mouse
>     detection ?
>     >     Error message below;
>     >
>     >     "input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as
>     >     /devices/virtual/input/input0  PNP: no PS/2 controller found.
>     >     Probing ports directly."
>     >
>     >     This laptop is a Everex Cloudbook and it has no PS/2 mouse
>     connection,
>     >     if you want a external mouse you will have to connect to USB .
>     >     It amazing, this laptop has no problem booting into Fedora 8.
>     >     I would look at this as a bug, wouldn't you ??
>     >
>     >
>     > ...i'd say file a bugzilla but F9 is still not an official
>     release so
>     > it may be that it will get fixed before the final release. I
>     would do
>     > as  suggested above and check with the fedora-test and devel mailing
>     > list to see what they think or you could crack open that desktop
>     linux
>     > reference manual or try a different mouse. Many are willing to help
>     > but generally if its not officially released yet then you will find
>     > that people are less concerned because many issues will get resolved
>     > before final release( or you hope so anyway) As for another
>     parameter
>     > you could pass at boot time , i don't know off hand, i'd have to
>     look
>     > up how to work around mouse detection but that i think may mean
>     > runlevel 3 which is no gui anyway.
>     >
>     It is my understanding you can report to  bugzilla.redhat.com
>     <http://bugzilla.redhat.com> but you
>     select it as a "rawhide version"
>
>
> Yes that's true but they are  having a hard  time keeping up with the 
> bugs as  is so that is why i suggested waiting for final release. 
>
> Max
>
I don't know about that Max, read the message below.
Thanks for your responds.
Jim

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-March/msg00011.html