[Bug 62990] Re: HAL fails to initialize on ASUS A6 series notebooks

2006-11-03 Thread Antti Koskinen
** Summary changed: - HAL fails to initialize / hal-device-manager not working + HAL fails to initialize on ASUS A6 series notebooks ** Attachment added: "Output of strace /usr/sbin/hald" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4960305/strace-hald.log -- HAL fails to initialize on ASUS A6 series not

[Bug 62990] Re: HAL fails to initialize on ASUS A6 series notebooks

2006-11-03 Thread Antti Koskinen
** Attachment added: "Big hald strace with -Ff -tt switches" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4960318/strace-hald_2.log.bz2 -- HAL fails to initialize on ASUS A6 series notebooks https://launchpad.net/bugs/62990 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.c

[Bug 62990] Re: HAL fails to initialize on ASUS A6 series notebooks

2006-11-05 Thread Antti Koskinen
Here's a partial solution that works at least on my A6Km. Fire up your text editor and point it at /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. Add the following line and then reboot. blacklist asus_acpi For some reason the hal daemon in Edgy doesn't like this module (Asus notebook acpi extras) on the A6 series no

[Bug 62990] Re: HAL fails to initialize on ASUS A6 series notebooks

2006-11-05 Thread zekus
I'm sorry but ... it doesnt worked! I disabled it as you have suggested but "failed to initialize HAL" is still there. I hope, however that you are next to the solution... maybe there is something else you have modified in your configuration that, with the previous workaround, made the world tur

[Bug 62990] Re: HAL fails to initialize on ASUS A6 series notebooks

2006-11-06 Thread Antti Koskinen
That is strange. On my notebook blacklisting asus_acpi really does help... maybe it only works on the A6Km. :/ Could you try blacklisting some of the other acpi modules? You can find them all in the directory below. You also need to add seperate lines in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist for every module.

[Bug 62990] Re: HAL fails to initialize on ASUS A6 series notebooks

2006-11-08 Thread zekus
I've tried to start with pci=noacpi and pci=noapic but... nothing the error is still there. I'm really thinking to compile the kernel 2.6.18, but, before I'll try to start with hald manually like you have done to see where it stops. Anyway, attached is my dmesg with acpi disabled. ** Attachment

[Bug 62990] Re: HAL fails to initialize on ASUS A6 series notebooks

2006-11-12 Thread zekus
Ok... acpi=off worked but... it is not a solution! A laptop is not a laptop without ACPI so... let's find a real fix to this bug. How can I help? -- HAL fails to initialize on ASUS A6 series notebooks https://launchpad.net/bugs/62990 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [Bug 62990] Re: HAL fails to initialize on ASUS A6 series notebooks

2006-11-08 Thread matiu
Hi Zekus, in grub you can put on the end: acpi=off And get no ACPI, (which is practically the same as what we have, but with no HAL message :) Hope this helps. Blessings Matthew On 11/9/06, zekus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've tried to start with pci=noacpi and pci=noapic but... nothing