Hi There Gurus,

I loaded Slack 11 on my brand new raptor notebook (http://www.xtremenotebooks.com/index...&model_id=1160) and the first thing I did was to compile 2.6.18.3. All nice and well, it's booting, I got my two penguins at the top ACPI didn't get recognized though. No problem, I did another mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.18.3 -m ac:fan:button:etc..., rebooted and now all is well... Almost.. then somewhere still during the boot sequence the screen goes blank and system "hangs". I'm thinking, it can't be framebuffer since it booted half way thru. So after a week long struggle and endless kernel reconfig-recompile-reboot I ended up trying config from 2.6.14.3 from my old laptop which has served me well for a whole year. That kernel booted fine all the way up with only error being a fatal message that rc.udev did not start cause kernel is too old. At that point I'm thinking maybe there is nothing wrong with any kernel I tried to this point (and I've tried 2.6.18, *17, *16, *15 down to *14). So this time I chmod 644 rc.udev and booted again 2.6.18.3. Viola. It works!.. well, almost. I have no udev since I didn't start it. So while in 2.6.18.3, I do chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/rc.udev. Then I fired that sucker. My worst fears got confirmed. Blank screen again. Okay, so I have a udev problem... ?? Hmm, maybe, maybe not. I forgot to mention, that all these 2.6.15+ kernels I was *also* able to boot (with rc.udev starting) if I turned off ACPI with kernel param acpi=off. That's why by the way I was so persistent trying different kernels for the whole week thinking I must be missing some ACPI configuration in my kernel, or that maybe something about ACPI was buggy in the kernel. So anyway, I edited rc.udev adding "echo did this and that" after each statement, and I narrowed down the problem to the line:

# Call udevtrigger and udevsettle to do the device configuration:
/sbin/udevtrigger && /sbin/udevsettle

Specifically, I broke up this into two, and pin-pointed the problem to /sbin/udevsettle. So here I am, exhaused with no more ideas to try. I can run any 2.6.15+ kernel I want as long I either turn off ACPI or udev. But I need both Does anybody know what may be the problem? Why udevsettle fails if ACPI kernel mods are loaded and running? I know there is a newer udev out there then what Pat packaged in S11 (I think it's 097), but will it fix my problem?

Please advise..

Thanks much, -adam

Disable hotplug and see if that helps. It may be a conflict between hotplug and udev. chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.hotplug

Also, I always complie the acpi options into the kernel instead of as modules as it ensures there aren't any issues with them being loaded.

Disabling rc.hotplug does not help unfortunately. In fact, last night I worked on this a little bit more and I disabled just about every rc.<script> in /etc/rc.d/ which wasn't necessary, and starting rc.udev with ACPI enabled still hangs the system with black screen. I also upgraded udev to 103 from linuxpackages.net - no help either. I'm now back to stock 097 again.

When booting with ACPI enabled, I'm loading modules from ramdisk. Do you think it may help if I compile ACPI into the kernel? I can try that if there is some logical explanation why that would help..

-adam

It may help to do that as udev and/or the initrd may simply not be handling the modules correctly. It would be well worth a shot to try it.

Thanks Mason - I'll try that. My turkey is in the oven and my guests won't be over for another couple hours so I'll fire the compile right now.

Another question. I've read about udevsettle and how it's replacing old-fashion script loops that used to wait for kernel events. Whatever, I'm not all that clear on that. My question is, do I absolutely need udevsettle? What would happen if I removed it from rc.udev and just called udevtrigger?

PS. I'll let you know how compiled ACPI works with this problem.

PSS. Oh, and happy thanksgiving by the way!

-adam

Hi - I've kompiled ACPI into kernel this time, and there is still same issue..

Ok, what video card does it have and what video driver is being used by xorg?

Hi Mason - thanks for your dilligence on trying to help me out. The video card is nVIDIA GeFORCE Go 7900 GTX PCI-E with 512MB DDR 3 VideoRAM. However, as part of troubleshooting this problem I am not involving X at this point yet. I am only trying to get a clean boot into runlevel 3. I do have X loaded, but I'm not planning on jumping into it unless I resolve this issue. However, if I did use X I'd compile and use: NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9629-pkg1.run.

I am tempted to try rc.udev without udevsettle.

My backup plan is to go back to Slack 10.2 and just upgrade KDE (since that's mostly what I really care about from 11). But of course I'd love to be on 11. If 10.2 doesn't work either, It'd hate doing it but for the first time in years I'd use another distro

Here is another interesting thing. Ubuntu live detects ACPI just fine and brings up udev as well..

Ok, so any xorg config is out of the picture.

We're back to the kernel at this point. You said you're using the 2.6.18 kernel. Where did you get the kernel from? Is it the one on the downloaded install iso or did you get it directly from a server?

If it's the one from the iso, especially the dvd iso, I found that there is some problem with that one. When I tried using the one off the downloaded dvd it wouldn't work for me. I had similar problems to what you're having (I should have thought of this sooner).

If it's the one off the iso, I'd suggest removing it and it's source and get a fresh one off a Slack mirror. Compile that one with all of the options you need and try that.

I'm not sure what the problem is with the one off the iso, but I do know that I'm not the only one who ran into problems with it.

I'm using vanilla 2.6.18.3 from kernel.org configured via oldcofig with Pats 2.6.17.13 config file. Not sure if this will be of much help, but here is raptor's dmesg. I noticed it's trying to load a character device module intel-rng but device isn't found? I don't know if that causes the problem. Here is another observation. When I start udev, I can't bring up eth0 interface. Too many werid issues going on, but I am pretty sure it's all because of udev. If I turn udev off, suddenly everything nicely plays together..

Linux version 2.6.18.3-smp (root@raptor) (gcc version 3.4.6) #1 SMP Thu Nov 23 14:06:51 CST 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007fe80000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000007fe80000 - 000000007fe8b000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000007fe8b000 - 000000007ff00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000007ff00000 - 0000000080000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fed00000 - 00000000fed00400 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fed14000 - 00000000fed1a000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fed1c000 - 00000000fed90000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
1150MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f7760
On node 0 totalpages: 523904
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 294528 pages, LIFO batch:31
DMI present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f76b0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x7fe85724
ACPI: FADT (v001 INTEL CALISTGA 0x06040000 LOHR 0x0000005a) @ 0x7fe8ae20
ACPI: MADT (v001 INTEL CALISTGA 0x06040000 LOHR 0x0000005a) @ 0x7fe8ae94
ACPI: HPET (v001 INTEL CALISTGA 0x06040000 LOHR 0x0000005a) @ 0x7fe8aefc
ACPI: MCFG (v001 INTEL CALISTGA 0x06040000 LOHR 0x0000005a) @ 0x7fe8af34
ACPI: MADT (v001 PTLTD APIC 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x7fe8af70
ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x7fe8afd8
ACPI: SSDT (v001 SataRe SataPri 0x00001000 INTL 0x20050624) @ 0x7fe867d2
ACPI: SSDT (v001 SataRe SataSec 0x00001000 INTL 0x20050624) @ 0x7fe86136
ACPI: SSDT (v001 PmRef CpuPm 0x00003000 INTL 0x20050624) @ 0x7fe8576c
ACPI: DSDT (v001 INTEL CALISTGA 0x06040000 INTL 0x20050624) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: 2 duplicate APIC table ignored.
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 6:15 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
Processor #1 6:15 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, 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
ACPI: HPET id: 0x8086a201 base: 0xfed00000
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 88000000 (gap: 80000000:60000000)
Detected 1995.184 MHz processor.
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 523904
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux-2.6.18.3 ro root=801 pci=assign-busses 3
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 2072664k/2095616k available (2575k kernel code, 21708k reserved, 880k data, 252k init, 1178112k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Using HPET for base-timer
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3995.17 BogoMIPS (lpj=7990359)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000e3bd 00000000 00000001
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000e3bd 00000000 00000001
monitor/mwait feature present.
using mwait in idle threads.
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 4096K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000940 0000e3bd 00000000 00000001
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Freeing SMP alternatives: 16k freed
ACPI: Core revision 20060707
CPU0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz stepping 06
Booting processor 1/1 eip 2000
Initializing CPU#1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3990.10 BogoMIPS (lpj=7980205)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000e3bd 00000000 00000001
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000e3bd 00000000 00000001
monitor/mwait feature present.
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 4096K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 1
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000940 0000e3bd 00000000 00000001
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU1: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz stepping 06
Total of 2 processors activated (7985.28 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs: passed.
Brought up 2 CPUs
migration_cost=26
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 414k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: Using MMCONFIG
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.2
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEGP._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.RP01._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.RP02._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.RP03._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCIB._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 *7 10 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 12 14 15) *11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 11 12 14 15) *10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *10 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 1 3 4 *5 6 7 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC] (gpe 23) interrupt mode.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices
PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x6a0-0x6af has been reserved
pnp: 00:07: ioport range 0x6b0-0x6ff has been reserved
PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@d0000000 for 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: 2000-2fff
MEM window: d8000000-d9ffffff
PREFETCH window: c0000000-cfffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.0
IO window: 3000-3fff
MEM window: d4000000-d5ffffff
PREFETCH window: d0000000-d1ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.1
IO window: 4000-4fff
MEM window: d6000000-d7ffffff
PREFETCH window: d2000000-d3ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.2
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: disabled.
PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bus 6, cardbus bridge: 0000:05:07.0
IO window: 00005400-000054ff
IO window: 00005800-000058ff
PREFETCH window: 88000000-89ffffff
MEM window: 8c000000-8dffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
IO window: 5000-5fff
MEM window: da000000-da0fffff
PREFETCH window: 88000000-8affffff
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.1[B] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.1 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.2 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:07.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
Simple Boot Flag at 0x36 set to 0x1
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:01.0:pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:01.0:pcie03]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0:pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0:pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0:pcie03]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.1 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.1:pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.1:pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.1:pcie03]
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.2 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.2:pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.2:pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.2:pcie03]
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xc0000000, mapped to 0xf8880000, using 3072k, total 262144k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=1
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:cf20
vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00ccf56, set palette = c00ccfc0
vesafb: pmi: ports = 3b4 3b5 3ba 3c0 3c1 3c4 3c5 3c6 3c7 3c8 3c9 3cc 3ce 3cf 3d0 3d1 3d2 3d3 3d4 3d5 3da
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP0] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery absent)
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
ACPI (exconfig-0455): Dynamic SSDT Load - OemId [ PmRef] OemTableId [ Cpu0Ist] [20060707]
ACPI (exconfig-0455): Dynamic SSDT Load - OemId [ PmRef] OemTableId [ Cpu0Cst] [20060707]
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
ACPI (exconfig-0455): Dynamic SSDT Load - OemId [ PmRef] OemTableId [ Cpu1Ist] [20060707]
ACPI (exconfig-0455): Dynamic SSDT Load - OemId [ PmRef] OemTableId [ Cpu1Cst] [20060707]
ACPI: CPU1 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Invalid passive threshold
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM0] (25 C)
ibm_acpi: ec object not found
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 8250
00:09: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ide0: I/O resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free.
ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdd: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-K16RS, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hdd: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2000kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
libata version 2.00 loaded.
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 2.00
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 P2 IDE IDE ]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
ata: 0x170 IDE port busy
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0x18B0 irq 14
scsi0 : ata_piix
ata1.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 195371568 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
ata1.00: ata1: dev 0 multi count 16
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
Vendor: ATA Model: ST910021AS Rev: 3.04
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 >
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
usbmon: debugfs is not available
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.1.
serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: linear personality registered for level -1
md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
raid6: int32x1 425 MB/s
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
raid6: int32x2 433 MB/s
raid6: int32x4 300 MB/s
raid6: int32x8 285 MB/s
raid6: mmxx1 1335 MB/s
raid6: mmxx2 1480 MB/s
raid6: sse1x1 912 MB/s
raid6: sse1x2 1196 MB/s
raid6: sse2x1 1710 MB/s
raid6: sse2x2 2173 MB/s
raid6: using algorithm sse2x2 (2173 MB/s)
md: raid6 personality registered for level 6
md: raid5 personality registered for level 5
md: raid4 personality registered for level 4
raid5: automatically using best checksumming function: pIII_sse
pIII_sse : 3682.000 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (3682.000 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
TCP bic registered
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Starting balanced_irq
Using IPI Shortcut mode
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
Time: hpet clocksource has been installed.
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
ReiserFS: sda1: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: sda1: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: sda1: journal params: device sda1, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: sda1: checking transaction log (sda1)
ReiserFS: sda1: Using r5 hash to sort names
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Trying to move old root to /initrd ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 252k freed
Adding 1959920k swap on /dev/sda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1959920k
ReiserFS: sda2: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: sda2: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: sda2: journal params: device sda2, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: sda2: checking transaction log (sda2)
ReiserFS: sda2: Using r5 hash to sort names
ReiserFS: sda5: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: sda5: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: sda5: journal params: device sda5, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: sda5: checking transaction log (sda5)
ReiserFS: sda5: Using r5 hash to sort names
ReiserFS: sda6: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: sda6: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: sda6: journal params: device sda6, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: sda6: checking transaction log (sda6)
ReiserFS: sda6: Using r5 hash to sort names
Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:05:07.0 [1558:0571]
Yenta: Enabling burst memory read transactions
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta TI: socket 0000:05:07.0, mfunc 0x01aa1b22, devctl 0x64
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0cf0, PCI irq 16
Socket status: 30000006
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0x5000 - 0x5fff
cs: IO port probe 0x5000-0x5fff: clean.
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xda000000 - 0xda0fffff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x88000000 - 0x8affffff
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 945GM Chipset.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0x0
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC880, trying auto-probe from BIOS...
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 21, io base 0x00001800
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
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 19
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 19, io base 0x00001820
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
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 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 18, io base 0x00001840
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[D] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 16, io base 0x00001860
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 21, io mem 0xda304000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 3-2: USB disconnect, address 2
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
usb 5-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
intel_rng: FWH not detected
usb 5-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.3[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:07.1[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[17] MMIO=[da006000-da0067ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver, 0.12
sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
sdhci: SDHCI controller found at 0000:05:07.3 [104c:803c] (rev 0)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:07.3[D] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
mmc0: SDHCI at 0xda006800 irq 19 PIO
r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:0b.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'.
eth0: RTL8169 at 0xf9064c00, 00:90:f5:53:b7:9a, IRQ 17
intel_rng: FWH not detected
r8169: eth0: link down
intel_rng: FWH not detected
intel_rng: FWH not detected
intel_rng: FWH not detected
intel_rng: FWH not detected
intel_rng: FWH not detected
intel_rng: FWH not detected
r8169: eth0: link up
intel_rng: FWH not detected
intel_rng: FWH not detected
intel_rng: FWH not detected
intel_rng: FWH not detected
intel_rng: FWH not detected
intel_rng: FWH not detected
intel_rng: FWH not detected
intel_rng: FWH not detected
intel_rng: FWH not detected
intel_rng: FWH not detected
intel_rng: FWH not detected
intel_rng: FWH not detected
intel_rng: FWH not detected
intel_rng: FWH not detected
NET: Registered protocol family 23
nsc-ircc, chip->init
nsc-ircc, Found chip at base=0x02e
nsc-ircc, driver loaded (Dag Brattli)
nsc_ircc_open(), can't get iobase of 0x2f8
nsc-ircc, Found chip at base=0x02e
nsc-ircc, driver loaded (Dag Brattli)
nsc_ircc_open(), can't get iobase of 0x2f8
pnp: Device 00:0a disabled.
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
input: ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input1
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
ata1: soft resetting port
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
ata1: EH complete
SCSI device sda: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
usb 5-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 5-7: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST625211USB Rev: 4.02
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sdb: 4883760 512-byte hdwr sectors (2500 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 73 00 00 08
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdb: 4883760 512-byte hdwr sectors (2500 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 73 00 00 08
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1
sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete

Actually, booting from S11 CD1 with Pat's huge26.s loads ACPI and brings up udev also. I used the following command to boot that one:

huge26.s root=/dev/sda1 noinitrd ro

However, eth0 interface again did not come up and I'm thinking it's got to be udev. Here is dmesg from that boot sequence.

5) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 1 3 4 5 6 7 *10 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 1 3 4 *5 6 7 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC] (gpe 23) interrupt mode.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
SCSI subsystem initialized
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #6:20000@d0000000 for 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: 2000-2fff
MEM window: d8000000-d9ffffff
PREFETCH window: c0000000-cfffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.0
IO window: 3000-3fff
MEM window: d4000000-d5ffffff
PREFETCH window: d0000000-d1ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.1
IO window: 4000-4fff
MEM window: d6000000-d7ffffff
PREFETCH window: d2000000-d3ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.2
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: disabled.
PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bus 7, cardbus bridge: 0000:06:07.0
IO window: 00005400-000054ff
IO window: 00005800-000058ff
PREFETCH window: 88000000-89ffffff
MEM window: 8c000000-8dffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
IO window: 5000-5fff
MEM window: da000000-da0fffff
PREFETCH window: 88000000-8affffff
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 7
PCI: setting IRQ 7 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.1[B] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.1 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.2[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.2 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:07.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
Simple Boot Flag at 0x36 set to 0x1
apm: BIOS not found.
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
NTFS driver 2.1.27 [Flags: R/W].
JFS: nTxBlock = 8192, nTxLock = 65536
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, large block numbers, no debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:01.0:pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:01.0:pcie03]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0:pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0:pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0:pcie03]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.1[B] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.1 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.1:pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.1:pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.1:pcie03]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.2[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.2 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.2:pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.2:pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.2:pcie03]
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 8250
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 6464K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Compaq SMART2 Driver (v 2.6.0)
HP CISS Driver (v 2.6.10)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ide0: I/O resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free.
ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdd: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-K16RS, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hdd: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2000kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5go
Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers...
Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-5[2409]-mh1)
scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0-ac
qlogicfas: no cards were found, please specify I/O address and IRQ using iobase= and irq= options<6>QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver
Emulex LightPulse Fibre Channel SCSI driver 8.1.6
Copyright(c) 2004-2006 Emulex. All rights reserved.
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
megaraid cmm: 2.20.2.6 (Release Date: Mon Mar 7 00:01:03 EST 2005)
megaraid: 2.20.4.8 (Release Date: Mon Apr 11 12:27:22 EST 2006)
megasas: 00.00.02.04 Fri Feb 03 14:31:44 PST 2006
GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.04
GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.26.02.001.
3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.02.007.
nsp32: loading...
ipr: IBM Power RAID SCSI Device Driver version: 2.1.3 (March 29, 2006)
libata version 1.20 loaded.
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: version 1.05
ata_piix 0000:00:1f.2: MAP [ P0 P2 IDE IDE ]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ata: 0x170 IDE port busy
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0x18B0 irq 14
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:7d09 84:6003 85:3469 86:3c09 87:6003 88:207f
ata1: dev 0 ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 195371568 sectors: LBA48
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi2 : ata_piix
Vendor: ATA Model: ST910021AS Rev: 3.04
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
st: Version 20050830, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
SCSI device sda: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 195371568 512-byte hdwr sectors (100030 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 >
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
I2O subsystem v1.325
i2o: max drivers = 8
I2O Configuration OSM v1.323
I2O Bus Adapter OSM v1.317
I2O Block Device OSM v1.325
I2O SCSI Peripheral OSM v1.316
I2O ProcFS OSM v1.316
Fusion MPT base driver 3.03.09
Copyright (c) 1999-2005 LSI Logic Corporation
Fusion MPT SPI Host driver 3.03.09
Fusion MPT FC Host driver 3.03.09
Fusion MPT SAS Host driver 3.03.09
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:07.1[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[11] MMIO=[da006000-da0067ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1)
ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance
usbmon: debugfs is not available
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 5, io mem 0xda304000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
116x: driver isp116x-hcd, 03 Nov 2005
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 5, io base 0x00001800
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 11, io base 0x00001820
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 10, io base 0x00001840
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[D] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 7, io base 0x00001860
usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 1-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
sl811: driver sl811-hcd, 19 May 2005
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb 5-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 5-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
input: Microsoft SideWinder Game Pad Pro USB version 1.0 as /class/input/input0
input: USB HID v1.00 Gamepad [Microsoft SideWinder Game Pad Pro USB version 1.0] on usb-0000:00:1d.3-1
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.1.
serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: linear personality registered for level -1
md: raid0 personality registered for level 0
md: raid1 personality registered for level 1
md: raid10 personality registered for level 10
md: raid5 personality registered for level 5
md: raid4 personality registered for level 4
raid5: automatically using best checksumming function: pIII_sse
pIII_sse : 3641.000 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (3641.000 MB/sec)
raid6: int32x1 430 MB/s
raid6: int32x2 443 MB/s
raid6: int32x4 305 MB/s
raid6: int32x8 290 MB/s
raid6: mmxx1 1335 MB/s
raid6: mmxx2 1481 MB/s
raid6: sse1x1 911 MB/s
raid6: sse1x2 1193 MB/s
raid6: sse2x1 1708 MB/s
raid6: sse2x2 2176 MB/s
raid6: using algorithm sse2x2 (2176 MB/s)
md: raid6 personality registered for level 6
md: multipath personality registered for level -4
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
device-mapper: 4.6.0-ioctl (2006-02-17) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
TCP bic registered
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
ACPI wakeup devices:
LID0 PWRB SLPB HDEF PXS1 PXS2 PXS3 GLAN MODM
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
ReiserFS: sda1: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1
ReiserFS: sda1: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: sda1: journal params: device sda1, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: sda1: checking transaction log (sda1)
ReiserFS: sda1: replayed 5 transactions in 0 seconds
ReiserFS: sda1: Using r5 hash to sort names
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 284k freed
Adding 1959920k swap on /dev/sda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1959920k
ReiserFS: sda2: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: sda2: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: sda2: journal params: device sda2, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: sda2: checking transaction log (sda2)
ReiserFS: sda2: Using r5 hash to sort names
ReiserFS: sda5: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: sda5: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: sda5: journal params: device sda5, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: sda5: checking transaction log (sda5)
ReiserFS: sda5: Using r5 hash to sort names
ReiserFS: sda6: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: sda6: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: sda6: journal params: device sda6, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: sda6: checking transaction log (sda6)
ReiserFS: sda6: Using r5 hash to sort names
usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST625211USB Rev: 4.02
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sdb: 4883760 512-byte hdwr sectors (2500 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 73 00 00 08
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdb: 4883760 512-byte hdwr sectors (2500 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 73 00 00 08
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1
sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
usb-storage: device scan complete

Yeah, it looks like something isn't right as far as udev and/or the kernel are concerned. When you recompiled using oldconfig you did edit the options, correct?

I'm no udev expert so at this point am at a loss. I suspect a problem between the udev rules and your video card, but don't have a clue what it might be. Hopefully someone more expert in udev can add some useful input.

Thanks Mason. I will move forward with the setup without the udev. I'd rather have a working ACPI and non-working udev then the other way around. If someone runs into this or has an idea what may be going on please share what you know.

Thanks.