i recently had to change mobos. Old one is asus with sis chipset. new one is asus with intel chipset. Processor is p4 3.2 ghz. memory is 1g.

since the change, I cannot run gnome, it fails to run.

also the system is VERY slow to boot up. before it was less than a minute, maybe less than 30 seconds. now it takes 5 minutes.

I am wondering how to improve things.

Any assistance appreciated.
Danimalz

what error do you get from gnome??

what specific part of the startup process is taking so long??

Are you watching the system messages as it boots, and if so, is there a particular point at which things seem to pause for an unusually long time? My thinking is that one possibility is that the system is unnecessarily attempting to detect components that simply are not attached

thanks for the replies..!

interesting: i booted up from cd with knoppix. it also took ages to boot. after bootup it was also very slow. Next day, i tried knoppix again - this time it flew thru the bootup and fully loaded the GUI - KDE, i think.

So, i tried my HD (debian) and it booted up normally (quickly). but now I cannot run the UI (gnome). It is the xfree86 failing. I reconfigured using the i810 settings, as this is what was successful with knoppix. still fails. tried apt-get remove --purge of xfree86 & re-installed. still cannot load the UI.

There is a point in the error messages where xfree86 seems to still be looking for SIS drivers/modules whatever.

Any advice. I am almost there, and would like to get my UI working and get back to work on the damn thing.
??Help!!
Danimalz

why haven't you posted the exact error messages you are getting?? it would make it so much easier for people to help you... error messages are the bread and butter of troubleshooting... and BTW, we still don't know which part of your startup process is taking longer than usual...

this is xfree86 error log:

XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1 (Debian 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 20050901212727 fjp@localhost.localdomain)
Release Date: 15 August 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.8-16.0508-2 i686 [ELF]
Build Date: 02 September 2005

This version of XFree86 has been extensively modified by the Debian
Project, and is not supported by the XFree86 Project, Inc., in any
way. Bugs should be reported to the Debian Bug Tracking System; see
<URL: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting >.

We strongly encourage the use of the "reportbug" package and command
to ensure that bug reports contain as much useful information as
possible.

Before filing a bug report, you may want to consult the Debian X FAQ:
XHTML version: file:///usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.xhtml
plain text version: file:///usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz

Module Loader present
OS Kernel: Linux version 2.6.8-3-686-smp (root@lart) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #1 SMP Sat Jul 15 08:52:57 UTC 2006
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Sun Jul 30 23:36:48 2006
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4"
(==) ServerLayout "Default Layout"
(**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0)
(**) | |-->Monitor "LW1768A"
(**) | |-->Device "Generic Video Card"
(**) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard"
(**) Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
(**) XKB: rules: "xfree86"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
(**) XKB: model: "pc104"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us"
(**) XKB: layout: "us"
(==) Keyboard: CustomKeycode disabled
(**) |-->Input Device "Configured Mouse"
(WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(WW) The directory "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(**) FontPath set to "unix/:7100,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
(==) RgbPath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
(==) ModulePath set to "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
(--) using VT number 7

(WW) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such file or directory)
(II) Module ABI versions:
XFree86 ANSI C Emulation: 0.2
XFree86 Video Driver: 0.6
XFree86 XInput driver : 0.4
XFree86 Server Extension : 0.2
XFree86 Font Renderer : 0.4
(II) Loader running on linux
(II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a
(II) Module bitmap: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font Bitmap
(II) LoadModule: "pcidata"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a
(II) Module pcidata: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
(II) PCI: Probing config type using method 1
(II) PCI: Config type is 1
(II) PCI: stages = 0x03, oldVal1 = 0x00000000, mode1Res1 = 0x80000000
(II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex)
(II) PCI: 00:00:0: chip 8086,2570 card 1043,80f2 rev 02 class 06,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:02:0: chip 8086,2572 card 1043,2572 rev 02 class 03,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1d:0: chip 8086,24d2 card 1043,24d0 rev 02 class 0c,03,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:1d:1: chip 8086,24d4 card 1043,24d0 rev 02 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1d:2: chip 8086,24d7 card 1043,24d0 rev 02 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1d:3: chip 8086,24de card 1043,24d0 rev 02 class 0c,03,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1d:7: chip 8086,24dd card 1043,24d0 rev 02 class 0c,03,20 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1e:0: chip 8086,244e card 0000,0000 rev c2 class 06,04,00 hdr 01
(II) PCI: 00:1f:0: chip 8086,24d0 card 0000,0000 rev 02 class 06,01,00 hdr 80
(II) PCI: 00:1f:1: chip 8086,24db card 1043,24d0 rev 02 class 01,01,8a hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1f:3: chip 8086,24d3 card 1043,24d0 rev 02 class 0c,05,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 00:1f:5: chip 8086,24d5 card 1043,810d rev 02 class 04,01,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: 01:0d:0: chip 10ec,8139 card 1043,80b3 rev 10 class 02,00,00 hdr 00
(II) PCI: End of PCI scan
(II) Host-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 0: bridge is at (0:0:0), (0,0,1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(II) Bus 0 I/O range:
[0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B]
(II) Bus 0 non-prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B]
(II) Bus 0 prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B]
(II) PCI-to-PCI bridge:
(II) Bus 1: bridge is at (0:30:0), (0,1,1), BCTRL: 0x0006 (VGA_EN is cleared)
(II) Bus 1 I/O range:
[0] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d0ff (0x100) IX[B]
[1] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d4ff (0x100) IX[B]
[2] -1 0 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d8ff (0x100) IX[B]
[3] -1 0 0x0000dc00 - 0x0000dcff (0x100) IX[B]
(II) Bus 1 non-prefetchable memory range:
[0] -1 0 0xfe500000 - 0xfe5fffff (0x100000) MX[B]
(II) PCI-to-ISA bridge:
(II) Bus -1: bridge is at (0:31:0), (0,-1,-1), BCTRL: 0x0008 (VGA_EN is set)
(--) PCI:*(0:2:0) Intel Corp. 82865G Integrated Graphics Device rev 2, Mem @ 0xf0000000/27, 0xfe780000/19, I/O @ 0xeff0/3
(II) Addressable bus resource ranges are
[0] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0xffffffff (0x0) MX[B]
[1] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0000ffff (0x10000) IX[B]
(II) OS-reported resource ranges:
[0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
[1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B)
[2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[5] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[6] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
(II) PCI Memory resource overlap reduced 0xfe800000 from 0xfebfffff to 0xfe7fffff
(II) Active PCI resource ranges:
[0] -1 0 0xfe5ff800 - 0xfe5ff8ff (0x100) MX[B]
[1] -1 0 0xfe77b400 - 0xfe77b4ff (0x100) MX[B]
[2] -1 0 0xfe77b800 - 0xfe77b9ff (0x200) MX[B]
[3] -1 0 0x3f000000 - 0x3f0003ff (0x400) MX[B]
[4] -1 0 0xfe77bc00 - 0xfe77bfff (0x400) MX[B]
[5] -1 0 0xfe800000 - 0xfe7fffff (0x0) MX[B]O
[6] -1 0 0xfe780000 - 0xfe7fffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
[7] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xf7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[8] -1 0 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d8ff (0x100) IX[B]
[9] -1 0 0x0000ee80 - 0x0000eebf (0x40) IX[B]
[10] -1 0 0x0000e800 - 0x0000e8ff (0x100) IX[B]
[11] -1 0 0x00000400 - 0x0000041f (0x20) IX[B]
[12] -1 0 0x0000fc00 - 0x0000fc0f (0x10) IX[B]
[13] -1 0 0x0000ef80 - 0x0000ef9f (0x20) IX[B]
[14] -1 0 0x0000ef40 - 0x0000ef5f (0x20) IX[B]
[15] -1 0 0x0000ef20 - 0x0000ef3f (0x20) IX[B]
[16] -1 0 0x0000ef00 - 0x0000ef1f (0x20) IX[B]
[17] -1 0 0x0000eff0 - 0x0000eff7 (0x8) IX[B](B)
(II) Active PCI resource ranges after removing overlaps:
[0] -1 0 0xfe5ff800 - 0xfe5ff8ff (0x100) MX[B]
[1] -1 0 0xfe77b400 - 0xfe77b4ff (0x100) MX[B]
[2] -1 0 0xfe77b800 - 0xfe77b9ff (0x200) MX[B]
[3] -1 0 0x3f000000 - 0x3f0003ff (0x400) MX[B]
[4] -1 0 0xfe77bc00 - 0xfe77bfff (0x400) MX[B]
[5] -1 0 0xfe800000 - 0xfe7fffff (0x0) MX[B]O
[6] -1 0 0xfe780000 - 0xfe7fffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
[7] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xf7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[8] -1 0 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d8ff (0x100) IX[B]
[9] -1 0 0x0000ee80 - 0x0000eebf (0x40) IX[B]
[10] -1 0 0x0000e800 - 0x0000e8ff (0x100) IX[B]
[11] -1 0 0x00000400 - 0x0000041f (0x20) IX[B]
[12] -1 0 0x0000fc00 - 0x0000fc0f (0x10) IX[B]
[13] -1 0 0x0000ef80 - 0x0000ef9f (0x20) IX[B]
[14] -1 0 0x0000ef40 - 0x0000ef5f (0x20) IX[B]
[15] -1 0 0x0000ef20 - 0x0000ef3f (0x20) IX[B]
[16] -1 0 0x0000ef00 - 0x0000ef1f (0x20) IX[B]
[17] -1 0 0x0000eff0 - 0x0000eff7 (0x8) IX[B](B)
(II) OS-reported resource ranges after removing overlaps with PCI:
[0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
[1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3effffff (0x3ef00000) MX[B]E(B)
[2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[5] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[6] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
(II) All system resource ranges:
[0] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B)
[1] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3effffff (0x3ef00000) MX[B]E(B)
[2] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B]
[3] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B]
[4] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B]
[5] -1 0 0xfe5ff800 - 0xfe5ff8ff (0x100) MX[B]
[6] -1 0 0xfe77b400 - 0xfe77b4ff (0x100) MX[B]
[7] -1 0 0xfe77b800 - 0xfe77b9ff (0x200) MX[B]
[8] -1 0 0x3f000000 - 0x3f0003ff (0x400) MX[B]
[9] -1 0 0xfe77bc00 - 0xfe77bfff (0x400) MX[B]
[10] -1 0 0xfe800000 - 0xfe7fffff (0x0) MX[B]O
[11] -1 0 0xfe780000 - 0xfe7fffff (0x80000) MX[B](B)
[12] -1 0 0xf0000000 - 0xf7ffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B)
[13] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B]
[14] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B]
[15] -1 0 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d8ff (0x100) IX[B]
[16] -1 0 0x0000ee80 - 0x0000eebf (0x40) IX[B]
[17] -1 0 0x0000e800 - 0x0000e8ff (0x100) IX[B]
[18] -1 0 0x00000400 - 0x0000041f (0x20) IX[B]
[19] -1 0 0x0000fc00 - 0x0000fc0f (0x10) IX[B]
[20] -1 0 0x0000ef80 - 0x0000ef9f (0x20) IX[B]
[21] -1 0 0x0000ef40 - 0x0000ef5f (0x20) IX[B]
[22] -1 0 0x0000ef20 - 0x0000ef3f (0x20) IX[B]
[23] -1 0 0x0000ef00 - 0x0000ef1f (0x20) IX[B]
[24] -1 0 0x0000eff0 - 0x0000eff7 (0x8) IX[B](B)
(II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_clip.o": No symbols found
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_norm.o": No symbols found
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_xform.o": No symbols found
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a:m_debug_vertex.o": No symbols found
(II) Module GLcore: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) LoadModule: "bitmap"
(II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a
(II) Loading font Bitmap
(II) LoadModule: "dbe"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdbe.a
(II) Module dbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 Server Extension
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
(II) LoadModule: "ddc"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a
(II) Module ddc: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
(II) LoadModule: "dri"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a
(II) Module dri: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading sub module "drm"
(II) LoadModule: "drm"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libdrm.a
(II) Module drm: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
(II) LoadModule: "extmod"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libextmod.a
(II) Module extmod: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 Server Extension
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension SHAPE
(II) Loading extension MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
(II) Loading extension BIG-REQUESTS
(II) Loading extension SYNC
(II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
(II) Loading extension XC-MISC
(II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
(II) Loading extension XFree86-Misc
(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
(II) Loading extension DPMS
(II) Loading extension FontCache
(II) Loading extension TOG-CUP
(II) Loading extension Extended-Visual-Information
(II) Loading extension XVideo
(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
(II) Loading extension X-Resource
(II) LoadModule: "freetype"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a
(II) Module freetype: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 2.0.2
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font FreeType
(II) LoadModule: "glx"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a
(II) Module glx: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading sub module "GLcore"
(II) LoadModule: "GLcore"
(II) Reloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libGLcore.a
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "int10"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a
(II) Module int10: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
(II) LoadModule: "record"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/librecord.a
(II) Module record: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.13.0
Module class: XFree86 Server Extension
ABI class: XFree86 Server Extension, version 0.2
(II) Loading extension RECORD
(II) LoadModule: "speedo"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a
Skipping "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a:spencode.o": No symbols found
(II) Module speedo: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.1
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font Speedo
(II) LoadModule: "type1"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libtype1.a
(II) Module type1: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.2
Module class: XFree86 Font Renderer
ABI class: XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4
(II) Loading font Type1
(II) Loading font CID
(II) LoadModule: "vbe"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvbe.a
(II) Module vbe: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.1.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
(II) LoadModule: "sis"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o
(II) Module sis: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 0.7.0
Module class: XFree86 Video Driver
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6
(II) LoadModule: "mouse"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o
(II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0.1, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver
ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.4
(II) SIS: driver for SiS chipsets: SIS5597/5598, SIS530/620,
SIS6326/AGP/DVD, SIS300/305, SIS630/730, SIS540, SIS315, SIS315H,
SIS315PRO, SIS550, SIS650/M650/651/740, SIS330(Xabre),
SIS660/661FX/M661FX/M661MX/741/741GX/M741/760/M760, SIS340
(II) Primary Device is: PCI 00:02:0
(EE) No devices detected.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
This can be found in the log file "/var/log/XFree86.0.log".
Please report problems to submit@bugs.debian.org.

this is DMSG:

Linux version 2.6.8-3-686-smp (root@lart) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #1 SMP Sat Jul 15 08:52:57 UTC 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e8000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003ef30000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003ef30000 - 000000003ef40000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000003ef40000 - 000000003eff0000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000003eff0000 - 000000003f000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
111MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000ff780
On node 0 totalpages: 257840
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 28464 pages, LIFO batch:6
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 ACPIAM ) @ 0x000fadc0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 A M I OEMRSDT 0x09000505 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ef30000
ACPI: FADT (v002 A M I OEMFACP 0x09000505 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ef30200
ACPI: MADT (v001 A M I OEMAPIC 0x09000505 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3ef30390
ACPI: DSDT (v001 APPM1 APPM1302 0x00000302 INTL 0x02002026) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:2 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
Processor #1 15:2 APIC version 20
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: Assigned apic_id 2
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdb2 ro
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 32768 bytes)
Detected 3067.610 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 1013680k/1031360k available (1665k kernel code, 16740k reserved, 771k data, 168k init, 113856k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 6078.46 BogoMIPS
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz stepping 09
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 1462.79 usecs.
task migration cache decay timeout: 2 msecs.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Booting processor 1/1 eip 3000
Initializing CPU#1
masked ExtINT on CPU#1
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Calibrating delay loop... 6127.61 BogoMIPS
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU1: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU1: Thermal monitoring enabled
CPU1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz stepping 09
Total of 2 processors activated (12206.08 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
init IO_APIC IRQs
IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-16, 2-17, 2-18, 2-19, 2-20, 2-21, 2-22, 2-23 not connected.
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 3066.0198 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 133.0312 MHz.
checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs: passed.
Brought up 2 CPUs
CPU0: online
domain 0: span 03
groups: 01 02
domain 1: span 03
groups: 03
CPU1: online
domain 0: span 03
groups: 02 01
domain 1: span 03
groups: 03
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (ungzip failed); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 4624k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P0P4._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f63d0
PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0x700a, dseg 0xf0000
PNPBIOS fault.. attempting recovery.
PnPBIOS: Warning! Your PnP BIOS caused a fatal error. Attempting to continue
PnPBIOS: You may need to reboot with the "nobiospnp" option to operate stably
PnPBIOS: Check with your vendor for an updated BIOS
PnPBIOS: get_dev_node: unexpected status 0x28
PnPBIOS: 6 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 6 recorded by driver
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.3[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:0d.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
number of MP IRQ sources: 15.
number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24.
testing the IO APIC.......................
IO APIC #2......
.... register #00: 02000000
....... : physical APIC id: 02
....... : Delivery Type: 0
....... : LTS : 0
.... register #01: 00178020
....... : max redirection entries: 0017
....... : PRQ implemented: 1
....... : IO APIC version: 0020
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
01 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39
02 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31
03 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41
04 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49
05 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51
06 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
07 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61
08 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
09 003 03 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 71
0a 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79
0b 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81
0c 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89
0d 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91
0e 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 99
0f 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A1
10 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A9
11 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C9
12 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B9
13 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B1
14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
17 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C1
Using vector-based indexing
IRQ to pin mappings:
IRQ0 -> 0:2
IRQ1 -> 0:1
IRQ3 -> 0:3
IRQ4 -> 0:4
IRQ5 -> 0:5
IRQ6 -> 0:6
IRQ7 -> 0:7
IRQ8 -> 0:8
IRQ9 -> 0:9
IRQ10 -> 0:10
IRQ11 -> 0:11
IRQ12 -> 0:12
IRQ13 -> 0:13
IRQ14 -> 0:14
IRQ15 -> 0:15
IRQ169 -> 0:16
IRQ201 -> 0:17
IRQ185 -> 0:18
IRQ177 -> 0:19
IRQ193 -> 0:23
.................................... done.
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Initializing Cryptographic API
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 4624 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... |/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|done.
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 168k freed
vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ICH5: chipset revision 2
ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdcio, hddMA
hda: IBM-DJNA-371350, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD300BB-00CCB0, ATA DISK drive
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 26520480 sectors (13578 MB) w/1966KiB Cache, CHS=26310/16/63, UDMA(33)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 58633344 sectors (30020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=58168/16/63, UDMA(100)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1 p2 p3 < p5 >
hdd: CDU5211, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding 401584k swap on /dev/hdb5. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hdb2, internal journal
hdd: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
input: ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
SCSI subsystem initialized
i2c-sis96x version 1.0.0
Capability LSM initialized
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
NTFS driver 2.1.15 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:0d.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd800, 00:17:31:20:7d:5a, IRQ 193
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8101'
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 169, io base 0000ef00
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #2
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 177, io base 0000ef20
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 185, io base 0000ef40
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI #4
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 169, io base 0000ef80
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: Intel Corp. 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 193, pci mem f8925c00
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 865 Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 925M
agpgart: Detected 16252K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf0000000
hw_random hardware driver 1.0.0 loaded
cpci_hotplug: CompactPCI Hot Plug Core version: 0.2
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
pciehp: PCI Express Hot Plug Controller Driver version: 0.4
shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
AC'97 0 analog subsections not ready
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49563 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1)
ACPI: Processor [CPU2] (supports C1)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (8057 buckets, 64456 max) - 300 bytes per conntrack
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c031f0c0(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Inbound IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:17:31:20:7d:5a:00:04:5a:2e:57:01:08:00 SRC=63.166.28.8 DST=192.168.1.101 LEN=43 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=15 ID=0 PROTO=TCP SPT=80 DPT=32768 WINDOW=0 RES=0x00 ACK RST URGP=0

**sorry - bump**

looking for assistance, i guess i posted too much detail?
any suggestions and i am grateful.
cheers,
danimalz

okay...

by trial and error, i've gotten gnome back up, but only in fail-safe mode.
what did i do? I uninstalled X, Gnome, more...
re-installed.
At least i can run. Anyhow, what's the next step?
I cannot run normally, just in fail-safe mode.

If /var/log/messages, X11 logs, and your /home directory lives
on the same partition where /var is located, then you need to
clear these log files. In place of driver in /etc/X11/XF86Config
or /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 use vesa. That should fix the error
message that says can not find device. Also including
Option "VideoRam" "65536" in the device section where you
specify vesa as the driver will help fixed the video RAM to
64 MB assuming your graphics can handle that capacity and
you have equal to or more than 128 MB of RAM.

BTW, next time or now please use ub code in this forum.
This means use either the quote or code tags. This makes
it easier for me and others to read this post instead of
being annoyed of scrolling to Timbuktu.


NOTE: I manually formated this post so no scrolling
is needed.