On 2013-04-25 20:49 (GMT-0600) Chris Murphy composed:
John Reiser wrote:
What does "lspci -nn" say, particularly for the video graphics card?
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600M GT] [10de:0407] (rev a1)
What does F18 say in syslog /var/log/messages regarding any 'conflict's in address space during initialization of the linux kernel?
Not sure. Conflict comes up in the context of the fb and nouveau, which has always been a message with this video adapter. These are excerpts with the word conflict in them:
Apr 25 20:20:07 f18s kernel: ACPI Warning: 0x000000000000efa0-0x000000000000efbf SystemIO conflicts with Region \_SB_.PCI0.SBUS.SMBI 1 (20120711/utaddress-251)
• Apr 25 20:20:08 f18s kernel: ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000428-0x000000000000042f SystemIO conflicts with Region \PMIO 1 (20120711/utaddress-251) • Apr 25 20:20:08 f18s kernel: ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver • Apr 25 20:20:08 f18s kernel: ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000000500-0x000000000000053f SystemIO conflicts with Region \GPIO 1 (20120711/utaddress-251) • Apr 25 20:20:08 f18s kernel: ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should use it instead of the native driver • Apr 25 20:20:08 f18s kernel: lpc_ich: Resource conflict(s) found affecting gpio_ich
The whole thing is here:
http://pastebin.com/8y2C3kp0
This strikes me as either a GRUB problem, or a dracut/initramfs problem, because a 3.9.x kernel and initramfs built on f18 boots OK. So I don't know that this is even really a kernel problem.
On 2013-04-26 06:47 (GMT-0600) Chris Murphy composed:
John Reiser wrote:
Eek! The BIOS-e820 shows a severely fragmented memory map (lines 6 through 81).
It seems to be a consequence of EFI.
Which BIOS manufacturer, and what is the date?
Apple Inc. MacBookPro4,1/Mac-F42C89C8, BIOS MBP41.88Z.00C1.B03.0802271651 02/27/08
There were never any firmware updates for this model post release.
You are booting (U)EFI, right?
Yes.
On 2013-04-26 08:50 (GMT-0600) Chris Murphy composed:
Chris Murphy wrote:
What is the exact kernel F19 is using? Since I can't boot it, and its name on the stick is just vmlinuz, I can't tell what it is.
kernel-3.9.0-0.rc6.git2.3.fc19
Booted the target computer F18/kernel 3.6.11 and installed this kernel, and rebooted. Fail.
I get different messages, probably because I'm using a fully populated grub.cfg from grub2-mkconfig, whereas F19's grub.cfg is sparse. So with the manually installed kernel on F18 I get:
Loading Linux 3.9.0-0.rc6.git2.3.fc19.x86_64 … Laoding initial ramdisk …
Then hang. Not one message after that. Looks like a borked kernel for EFI Macs:
Wed Apr 24 2013 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx> - 3.9.0-0.rc8.git0.2 - Add patch to fix EFI boot on Macs (rhbz 953447)
3.9.0-0.rc8.git0.2.fc19 boots OK.
Same here, and virtually same video card, just on a Dell instead of a Mac, booting just fine. FYI, in case it may possibly help:
selected system data: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/chrisMthread.txt journalctl (lots of "conflicts with Region..."): http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/journalctl-gx280-f19.txt Xorg.0.log: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/xorg.0.log-gx280-f19.txt -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
