On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 15:52 -0700, Meistro Master wrote: > On 7/28/05, Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:12:04PM -0700, Meistro Master wrote: > > > What's weird is that the keyboard works fine initially, because I can > > > select the boot parameters and so forth. I am using the installer from > > > > The boot prompt uses bios calls, the language selector uses the linux > > kernel interface to the hardware. Different interface -> different > > behaviour. :) > > > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/sarge-amd64/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-amd64-binary-1.iso > > > > > > I do have two SATA hard drives; perhaps I need a newer boot kernel? > > > Reading through the list archives it sounds like people have had some > > > issues with SATA pre-2.6.12. > > > > > > Are there snapshots in .ISO form? Thanks for your help, Len! > > > > Well from what I read today, the current snapshots aren't building for > > some reason, and there have been some trouble with the new 2.6.12 > > kernels partially due to a name change. > > > > Feel free to try my unofficial sarge image with 2.6.12 though. > > > > http://www.tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/amd64/ > > Well, I tried your unofficial image, with the same results: locks on > the language selection screen. > > Just for the hell of it, I through in the official Sarge i386 CD > installer, and... it works. I'll see if I can get one of the smp em64t > kernels running on it. Kind of bummed that the amd64 port won't seem > to take. Is there any way I can pull logs/debug info from the failed > installations? I would be willing to extract it if it would help the > port team. > > Thanks again for all the tips. > > --Maestro >
It's a known problem for this machine, and related to the sound driver being loaded. When the kernel initializes the sound driver, all USB and PS/2 ports die. Workaround: Disable USB controller in the BIOS, or don't load sound driver :) Look for "sound problem" or "keyboard" in messages related to the 380/380N: http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-precision/2005-July/thread.html Strangely, the FC4 kernel works perfectly, but I have no idea why. Gentoo works fine, until coldplug runs and loads the audio driver, then keyboard and mouse are dead. I guess Debian loads modules at the beginning of the installer... Adam
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