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hi all,
i'm having this weird problem.I'm using the Gericom Masterpiece 2440XL laptop.Its' hardware is optimised for WinXP.But I tried to install the slackware linux and succeeded...sort of.When I tried to install slack 8.1 (which comes with a default 2.4.18 kernel) in boot process it said it had problem in recognizing my pci configuration.And since my HDD is attached on the pci bus, it tries to find my hdd and hangs up.I tried to install slack 8.0 (which comes with a default 2.2.19 kernel) and everything worked fine.So I got suspicious.Why was that? I tried also the following OSes:
Oses succeeded: - - --------------- Slackware 8.0 Slackware 7.0 NetBSD 1.6.1
OSes failed: - - ------------ OpenBSD 3.1 FreeBSD 5.0 Red Hat 9.0 Mandrake 9.1 Slackware 8.1
The common thing about all the succeeded linuxes is their 2.2.x kernels, and about all the failed linuxes their 2.4.x kernels.(I don't know much about *BSD, just tested them).
The next step was to find out at which stage of kernel development the bug was introduced. I downloaded the 2.2.25 kernel and compiled it. It works just fine.But 2.3.1, 2.3.15 and 2.4.20 kernels hang up.So, it must be the changes from 2.2 dev tree to the 2.3.I cannot provide more information for several reasons:
1) I'm not a kernel developer.So the only thing I managed to succeed in searching the kernel source is to spend a looooooooot of time doing nothing...
2) Since I'm using a laptop optimized for WinXP, my motherboard has a winmodem.Right now I'm using my winxp and I can't have my dmesg (except if I write it down or do some extra ntfs-ext2 compatibility work...)
So, any ideas? ...Fixes? Anyone with similar problem?I'd really appreciate your help. Thnx in advance,
spyros
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student @ D.U.TH.
pub-key: http://dalab.ee.duth.gr/~spyros/my_pub.asc
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