On 12/23/2011 5:00 PM, fred smith wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 05:44:11PM -0500, Ross Walker wrote:
>> On Dec 23, 2011, at 2:47 PM, fred smith<fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 01:02:12PM -0500, fred smith wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 05:53:13PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>>>> On 12/22/2011 05:44 PM, fred smith wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 04:56:42PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>>> <snip>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There is a new kernel building right now that might
>>>>>>> fix something ... though I do not see anything specifically about your cpu.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Here is the errata link:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1849.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If everything builds it should be released in a couple of hours.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> so it'll show up in a release channel (or CR repo) ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> It will be in 6.2/updates/
>>>>>
>>>>> Still building right now.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Johnny, I got that kernel, and it dies what appears to be the same
>>>> death as the prior one. the register dump is different than the one
>>>> I showed, but even before that the dump didn't always look the same.
>>>> this one also mentions something about alsa or snd. I can put it up on
>>>> the same web site as the last one if anyone would find it useful to
>>>> see (I certainly don't know how to interpret it).
>>>>
>>>> also, this is a netbook, so it has no serial port. If it did I'd look
>>>> into a serial console on the theory that I could capture the entire
>>>> dump. Can anyone suggest how I would do that without a serial console?
>>>> ... or if not exactly that, other things that would be useful to do
>>>> to help clarify/diagnose this?
>>>>
>>>> thanks all!
>>>>
>>>> Fred
>>>
>>> here's th e register dump for this failure. it looks like it may be
>>> more useful than the last one:
>>>
>>> http://users.rcn.com/fredricksmith/100_2020.JPG
>>
>> Is that sound on-board? If it is disable it in BIOS, if it isn't, remove the card.
>>
>> See if it breaks after that.
>
> the Bios has only a very few options, and disabling sound isn't
> one of them. :( since it's a laptop (netbook) it's probably not
> possible to yank the sound hardware (which, btw, works fine on
> Centos 6.1).
>
> I suppose I could try rebuilding the initial ram disk without the
> sound module(s), though I'm not sure I know exactly the right way
> to do that....
>
Add the modules to:
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
And re-install the kernel. The dracut util that builds the initramfs
includes this file at install time.
--
Corey Henderson
http://cormander.com/
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