Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Dell Inspriron 5000 and 2.4.0-test3-pre4 | Date | Thu, 06 Jul 2000 12:44:31 -0400 | From | Tom Sightler <> |
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Well, I've been testing and trying devel kernels on my Dell Inspiron 5000 since early in the 2.3.99-pre series. Typically I've been forced to go back to the 2.2.x series of kernels. I had given up for a while, seeing that many of the problems I was having were also being reported by others.
Will in looked like things had quited some for laptop users so over the last few weeks I've been trying the 2.4.0-test series, staring with around test1-ac22 and currently running test3-pre4. Things are much better and the system is now actually very usable but I'm still having a few problems that I just can't seem to narrow down so I thought I'd post here and see if others have any suggestions. First my hardware:
Dell Inspiron 5000, Intel Pentium III Speedstep 600/500 Mhz, 256 MB RAM, 18GB internal IDE drive, ATI Rage Pro Mobility AGP display, Xircom CBEM-56 Cardbus 10/100 Ethernet/56K Modem, Toshiba Internal IDE DVD-ROM.
The dist is RH 6.2.
OK, now the problems:
1) The Xircom adapter works properly and loads up correctly during boot after I downloaded and compiled the latest pcmcia-cs-3.1.17 and made a few minor changes to the startup script. Unfortunately, removing the card causes an oops and hard lock. If I manually stop the card I can then remove it without problems. This appears to be a problem in the xircom_tulip_cb driver but I'm not sure. If I simply ifconfig eth0 down and rmmod the modules I can also remove the card without problems.
2) APM problems. I have APM compiled as a module and it seems to work properly. The Gnome applet track my battery usage and knows when I'm on AC or not. I can sleep the machine, however, when I attempt to wake up it appears to go through the normal sequence, the screen returns, the NIC card LED's light up, but then the mouse hangs and that's it. I have not yet attempted to use ACPI on this machine, but can do so if anyone thinks that will fix it. I can't really imagine that I need any of the features of APCI, but it would be nice to be able to shut the lid, move offices, and return to my work, shutting down each time is a pain.
The APM problems may not be related to the 2.4.x kernels as it give nearly the exact same symptoms with both stock RH 2.2.14 kernels and custom compiled 2.2.16 kernels (I've tried every compile option under APM with no real change in behavior).
These are really my last two problems with 2.4.x and I'd like to get them resolved. Anyone have any ideas how I could troubleshoot this problem? I'm guessing the first thing is to copy the oops and see what's hanging, but thought this might be a know issue. I'll gladly help troubleshoot this problem.
Later, Tom
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