Re: Samsung Q45 hard freeze during boot

From: Sam Morris
Date: Sun Apr 13 2008 - 13:03:19 EST


On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 01:50 +0100, Sam Morris wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 11:38 +0100, Sam Morris wrote:
> > Hi there, I'm trying to get Linux working on a Samsung Q45 laptop.
> > 2.6.22 works fine, but 2.6.24.3 and 2.6.25-rc8 both freeze hard during
> > boot time after the following messages:
> >
> > Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...
> > agpgart: Detected an Intel 965GM Chipset.
> > agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xd0000000
> > input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input2
> > ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWSRF]
> > inputL Lid Switch as /class/input/input3
> > ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
> > input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input4
> > ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
> > input: Sleep Button (CM) as /class/input/input5
> > ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
> > ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (on-line)
> > ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
>
> Further to this--I found that if I blacklist the 'video' driver then I can boot up normally.

I built a mainline kernel to test this out, and the freeze happens with
2.6.24.4. I also filed a bug at
<http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10448>.

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Sam Morris <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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