Bug 57622
| Summary: | Boot-up hangs when initializing PCMCIA | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Petter Holmstrvm <petter.holmstrom> | ||||||
| Component: | kernel-pcmcia-cs | Assignee: | Dave Jones <davej> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> | ||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||
| Version: | 7.2 | CC: | donj, nkudriavtsev, pfrields | ||||||
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| Hardware: | i586 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2004-11-25 07:30:32 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
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Description
Petter Holmstrvm
2001-12-17 19:26:10 UTC
The same result with Compal CL10 based notebook and RedHat 7.1 I am using 7.3 with a Compal ACL10 and the same result. It is posible to install from cd-rom with 'pci=off' kernel option. Some more information. Compal CL10 (ACL10) has O2 Micro’s OZ6933 CardBus Controller. Tested OS – RedHat 7.3. The first boot after installation runs OK. The second boot and others hang on PCMCIA starting. After booting with PCMCIA switched off, ‘modprobe pcmcia_core’ is OK. ‘modprobe yenta_socket’ puts messages PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 02:04.0. Please try using pci=biosirq. PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 02:04.1. Please try using pci=biosirq. and then hangs. Pci=biosirq option provides no help. Created attachment 66244 [details]
A kernel patch to run Linux on ACL10 laptops (tested with kernel 2.4.18-5)
OK! At last, I have found workarounds for running Linux on ACL10 laptops. 1. A patch for Redhat’s Linux kernel 2.4.18-5, but I think that patch is suitable for other releases of 2.4 kernel. Patched file is arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c. The pci-pc.acl10.diff patch in attachment to Bug# 57622. 2. To run nvidia driver you need an updated BIOS. The BIOS that I used from http://www.v-service.ru/FTP_Files/Notebook/BIOS/CL10/130.zip. Last BIOS from www.compal.com marked as v0.5A and I did not experiment with it. Ok unfortionatly I can't add this patch, since it affects ALL notebooks with this chipset not just your model ;( Maybe if you send dmidecode output (dmidecode is part of the kernel-utils package) I can try to make it for your laptop only Sure pci-pc.c is not right place for that patch, it is only short cut workaround. I tried to put the code in dmi_scan.c, but got conclusion that global pci_dev info structure was not initialized at stage of execution of dmi_scan, so moved the code to pci-pc.c. In reference to dmidecode output, I will send it in a few day. Created attachment 66744 [details]
DMI BIOS dump for Compal ACL10 laptop
Original BIOS on laptop was version "V0.05" release "02/09/2001" |