Bug#276780: Fwd: Re: Bug#276780: Installation report

2004-10-22 Thread Ahmad Khayyat
I got it to work.. I needed to disable "legacy usb support" from the bios! Thanks for the help. On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:23:21 +0200, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 17 October 2004 06:16, Ahmad Khayyat wrote: > > 1. Kernel 2.4 boots nicely without additional options (only vga=771

Bug#276780: Fwd: Re: Bug#276780: Installation report

2004-10-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 17 October 2004 06:16, Ahmad Khayyat wrote: > 1. Kernel 2.4 boots nicely without additional options (only vga=771). > 2. Other 3 kernels boot nicely with the additional option (acpi=off). > 3. Without acpi=off option, 2.6 kernels boot but keyboard is not > working (ssh connects fine and s

Bug#276780: Fwd: Re: Bug#276780: Installation report

2004-10-19 Thread Ahmad Khayyat
Hey.. any news?? I need to get the keyboard running using ACPI so that I can make use of both CPUs. The system works with acpi=off but then has only one CPU. without acpi=off, two CPUs but no keyboard..!! Any ideas?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Bug#276780: Fwd: Re: Bug#276780: Installation report

2004-10-16 Thread Ahmad Khayyat
I forgot one very important thins.. Whenever I boot with acpi=off option, I only have a single processor reported in /proc/cpuinfo. When I remove this option, keyboard doesn't work but I can see 2 processors in /proc/cpuinfo (from ssh shell). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#276780: Fwd: Re: Bug#276780: Installation report

2004-10-16 Thread Ahmad Khayyat
Hi again.. Here is what I have done: 1. Installed the base system using woody netinst CD imagen and 2.4 kernel (bf24 vga=771). 2. Removed Lilo and installed grub instead. 3. Ugraded (dist-upgrade) to sarge. 4. Installed ssh (for testing against hangs -- as suggested). 5. Installed 3 additional 2.

Bug#276780: Fwd: Re: Bug#276780: Installation report

2004-10-16 Thread Ahmad Khayyat
I tried using the installer with kernel 2.6 and disabling usb, apic, lapic and acpi.. still no luck linux26 vga=771 noapic nolapic acpi=off debian-installer/proc/../usb=false or something like that as suggested in F7 of the installer. On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 01:14:44 +0200, Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTE

Bug#276780: Fwd: Re: Bug#276780: Installation report

2004-10-16 Thread Frans Pop
(Please always also reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to keep the bug history complete; please delete any text from the mail you reply to that's not necessary for the reply.) On Saturday 16 October 2004 22:38, Ahmad Khayyat wrote: > Thanks for you prompt reply.. but can't the kernel panic be avoided. >

Bug#276780: Fwd: Re: Bug#276780: Installation report

2004-10-16 Thread Frans Pop
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Bug#276780: Installation report Date: Saturday 16 October 2004 22:38 From: Ahmad Khayyat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks for you prompt reply.. but can't the kernel panic be avoided. It hapens when rebooting after