Re: Laptop: system hangs

[Dale Amon]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:10:40PM +0200, Matthias P. Wuerfl wrote:
> OK.  Su to root is no problem. What i meant was "what do i have to type 
> to get information about what was detected during startup?". What i need 
> is the linux-translation of "Hey Knoppix, what did you detect?". I 
> thougt of "cat /var/log/boot" or "var/log/hardware-detect", but there's 
> no such file. I'll c&p /var/log/messages for it has been useful in other 
> cases :-).

cat /proc/pci 

is usually very informative. You should also find info on the
various busses as well. But the pci will probably give you most
of what you want.

If it is a 2.6.0 without the /proc/pci legacy code, you use

lspci

to get some info.

You can also use 

lsmod

to find out what drivers knoppix loaded.


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Re: Laptop: system hangs

[Emanuele Rocca]

Hi Matthias,

Il mar, 2003-09-02 alle 13:10, Matthias P. Wuerfl ha scritto:
> OK.  Su to root is no problem. What i meant was "what do i have to type 
> to get information about what was detected during startup?".
lsmod shows you all the loaded modules, this is a good starting point.
Take also a look at the output of dmesg.

bye
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Emanuele Rocca - 1024D/EAF19B60


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Re: Laptop: system hangs

[Matthias P. Wuerfl]

Dale Amon wrote:

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:44:15AM +0200, Matthias P. Wuerfl wrote:
 

Knoppix (2003-07-26-BETA) starts fine. Where can i see what it has 
detected? 
   

You can su to root in an xterm. Password is null. Also, you can go to
virtual console vt1 and see the results of the boot up discovery.
OK.  Su to root is no problem. What i meant was "what do i have to type 
to get information about what was detected during startup?". What i need 
is the linux-translation of "Hey Knoppix, what did you detect?". I 
thougt of "cat /var/log/boot" or "var/log/hardware-detect", but there's 
no such file. I'll c&p /var/log/messages for it has been useful in other 
cases :-).

Additional Informations:
- In the meantime i have installed Knoppix to my hd.
- X works fine but but the "CTRL-ALT-1"[*] shows only blank screen
- Tried to install Windows again to gather hardware information. This is 
not really possible because installation has to be done "blind" because 
screen shows only trash.
- idea: this laptop seems to have a problem with other screen 
resolutions than 1024x7xx.

[*] whats the name of it? CLI? tty?

/var/log/messages follows:

Sep  2 12:21:35 barney syslogd 1.4.1#10: restart.
Sep  2 12:21:35 barney kernel: klogd 1.4.1#10, log source = /proc/kmsg 
started.
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.21-xfs
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: Loaded 18123 symbols from 
/boot/System.map-2.4.21-xfs.
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.4.21.
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: Loaded 336 symbols from 25 modules.
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: Linux version 2.4.21-xfs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
(gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 SMP Fre Jul 25 
00:06:47 CEST 2003
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel:  BIOS-e820:  - 
0009fc00 (usable)
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel:  BIOS-e820: 0009fc00 - 
000a (reserved)
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel:  BIOS-e820: 000e - 
0010 (reserved)
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel:  BIOS-e820: 0010 - 
077f (usable)
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel:  BIOS-e820: 077f - 
077fffc0 (ACPI data)
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel:  BIOS-e820: 077fffc0 - 
0780 (ACPI NVS)
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel:  BIOS-e820: fffc - 
0001 (reserved)
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: 119MB LOWMEM available.
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 30704
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages.
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: zone(1): 26608 pages.
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: zone(2): 0 pages.
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro 
root=303 hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi 
hdh=scsi apm=power-off nomce
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: ide_setup: hda=scsi
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: ide_setup: hdb=scsi
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: ide_setup: hdc=scsi
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: ide_setup: hdd=scsi
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: ide_setup: hde=scsi
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: ide_setup: hdf=scsi
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: ide_setup: hdg=scsi
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: ide_setup: hdh=scsi
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: Found and enabled local APIC!
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: Initializing CPU#0
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: Detected 701.598 MHz processor.
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 1399.19 BogoMIPS
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: Memory: 118556k/122816k available (1258k 
kernel code, 3872k reserved, 531k data, 132k init, 0k highmem)
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 
(order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 
(order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: Mount cache hash table entries: 512 
(order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 
(order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 
(order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: CPU serial number disabled.
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception 
support... done.
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: Checking for popad bug... OK.
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch 
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel: mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
Sep  2 12:21:36 barney kernel:

Re: Laptop: system hangs

[Dale Amon]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:44:15AM +0200, Matthias P. Wuerfl wrote:
> Knoppix (2003-07-26-BETA) starts fine. Where can i see what it has 
> detected? Or, alternatively, is it a good Idea to simply take knoppix? I 

You can su to root in an xterm. Password is null. Also, you can go to
virtual console vt1 and see the results of the boot up discovery.


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Re: Laptop: system hangs

[Matthias P. Wuerfl]

Jonathan Oxer wrote:

Does the machine currently boot Windows?
Windows is already deleted.

Alternatively, you could try booting off a Knoppix CD to see what it
autodetects.
Knoppix (2003-07-26-BETA) starts fine. Where can i see what it has 
detected? Or, alternatively, is it a good Idea to simply take knoppix? I 
read it is based on Debian. Can i use Debian packages with knoppix? Or 
is it possible simply to substitue the Debian-Kernel with the 
Knoppix-kernel on CD1?

Also, have you tried the 2.4 kernel option in the installer?
Jepp. Same problem.

Gruesse, Matthias

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Re: Laptop: system hangs

[Jonathan Oxer]

Hi Matthias,

> I tried to install woody on my laptop, but it doesn't work. It's the 
> first time with Debian for me. I don't know much about that laptop[1].
> 
> What happens after booting from CD:
> 
> boot: [ENTER]
...
> - What else can i try0?
> - Why doesn't it work?
> - Where can i find more Information on that problem?

Laptops can sometimes be a problem just because of their all-in-one
nature, and no-name brand ones even more so because you may not even be
able to find out what chipsets they use.

Does the machine currently boot Windows?

If so, you may be able to use the System control panel to determine
things like the video/ethernet/audio etc chipsets, which would be useful
information for debugging this sort of thing.

Alternatively, you could try booting off a Knoppix CD to see what it
autodetects.

Also, have you tried the 2.4 kernel option in the installer? Do 'boot:
bf24' to use the 2.4 kernel, which may work around some of your issues.
I've stepped through that process at

http://www.debianuniverse.com/readonline/chapter/03

Cheers  :-)

Jonathan


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