Re: Samsung Q45 hard freeze during boot

[Sam Morris]

On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 11:38 +0100, Sam Morris wrote:
> Hi there, I'm trying to get Linux working on a Samsung Q45 laptop.
> 2.6.22 works fine, but 2.6.24.3 and 2.6.25-rc8 both freeze hard during
> boot time after the following messages:
> 
>         Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...
>         agpgart: Detected an Intel 965GM Chipset.
>         agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xd0000000
>         input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input2
>         ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWSRF]
>         inputL Lid Switch as /class/input/input3
>         ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
>         input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input4
>         ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
>         input: Sleep Button (CM) as /class/input/input5
>         ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
>         ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (on-line)
>         ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)

Further to this--I found that if I blacklist the 'video' driver then I can boot up normally.

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Sam Morris
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