Re: Kernel 2.5.55 failed to boot with ACPI support

From: Dominik Brodowski (linux@brodo.de)
Date: Sun Jan 12 2003 - 18:08:46 EST


On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 12:04:02AM +0100, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> Andrew Grover wrote:
>
> > > From: Ole J. Hagen [mailto:olehag_2001@yahoo.no]
> > > I just wanted to inform that kernel-2.5.55 failes to boot
> > > when ACPI support is
> > > compiled in the kernel.
> > >
> > > I have following configuration; Dell Optiplex GX-240, Pentium
> > > 4 (1.5 GHz), ATI RAGE 128.
> >
> > How exactly does it fail?
>
> My brand new Dell Latitude C640 oopses on boot in 2.5.56 if I
> have CPU_FREQ config'd in. ACPI without CPU_FREQ is okay - well,
> it screws my framebuffer screen (what 2.4.21-pre3 doesn't) when
> the ACPI code does its bootup printk's, but after that the
> screen recovers.
>
> ...
>
> Back on topic, if you're interested I can rebuild my 2.5.56 with
> CPU_FREQ and write down the backtrace of the oops.

Would be great if you could do that - and tell what oops it is (NULL pointer
dereference etc.), in case you still see that on your screen.

        Dominik
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