Edward wrote:
> In the post where you show things going wrong, you have usb AND ethernet
> on 11. You say you have no usb devices.
>
> How about this test then? = Disable USB in the BIOS and see what happens.
Bill Shannon wrote:
> I tried that. It made no difference.
>
> I'm still not clear on how to disable acpi in grub.conf.
> I tried
>
> options ide-cd ignore=hdd acpi=off
>
> and
>
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.521 ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off
>
> and neither seemed to make a difference. In the latter case, I see this
> in /var/log/messages:
>From linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt:
nousb [USB] Disable the USB subsystem
noacpi [IA-32] Do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
or for PCI scanning.
acpi= [HW,ACPI] Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
Format: { force | off | ht | strict }
force -- enable ACPI if default was off
off -- disable ACPI if default was on
noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
ht -- run only enough ACPI to enable Hyper Threading
strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are not
strictly ACPI specification compliant.
See also Documentation/pm.txt, pci=noacpi
It might also be worth temporarily disabling both sound and networking:
try commenting out the appropriate lines in /etc/modprobe.conf or
setting alias sound off.
It might *also* be worth playing with kernel.org kernels.
Hope this gives you a couple of ideas...
James.
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