Hello,

I have a Notebook Dell Latitude 120l. I've installed Slackware 11 with no problems or warnings. But when I tried booting, i got a blank screen. I tried passing "Linux acpi=off" on Lilo command line, and the system booted normally. I decide to use the latest kernel, thinking of some problem that would have been solved in a newer version. Again, without acpi=off i was getting a black screen. Anyway, i configured the audio, Xorg with i810, the wifi and ethernet card, without acpi. Searching google, someone said that with vga=normal boot with acpi was possible. I entered "Linux vga=normal" and didn't get the blank screen, but everything that i had configured stopped working. I have framebuffer enabled in my kernel.

I tried a Kubuntu live cd, and acpi worked with everything else together. Some have said that this is a problem with hotplug, but i don't think so, since it happens way before multiuser mode. Any tips?

Here's the output of lspci :

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
02:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection (rev 05)


Output of dmesg without acpi :

r No Bus:ttywd
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttywe
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttywf
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyef

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PM: Adding info for No Bus:sxctl
PM: Adding info for No Bus:rtc
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
i8k: unable to get SMM BIOS version
Dell laptop SMM driver v1.14 21/02/2005 Massimo Dal Zotto (dz@debian.org)
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
PM: Adding info for platform:serial8250
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyS0
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyS1
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyS2
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyS3
PM: Adding info for No Bus:isa
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
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
ICH6: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1b.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1d.7
ICH6: chipset revision 3
ICH6: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xbfa0-0xbfa7, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: Hitachi HTS541040G9AT00, ATA DISK drive
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ide0
hdb: HL-DT-ST DVD+/-RW GSA-T11N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hda: hw_config=603b
hda: hw_config=603b
hdb: hw_config=4f00
hdb: hw_config=4f00
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
PM: Adding info for ide:0.0
PM: Adding info for ide:0.1
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/7539KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63<6>hda: hw_config=603b
, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
PM: Adding info for platform:i8042
i8042.c: Warning: Keylock active.
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
PM: Adding info for serio:serio0
PM: Adding info for No Bussaux
PM: Adding info for serio:serio1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0xa5a0b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x200000
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input1
PM: Adding info for platform:dcdbas
dcdbas dcdbas: Dell Systems Management Base Driver (version 5.6.0-3.2)
TCP cubic registered
Initializing XFRM netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
Magic number: 3:761:89
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
ReiserFS: hda3: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda3: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hda3: journal params: device hda3, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda3: checking transaction log (hda3)
ReiserFS: hda3: Using r5 hash to sort names
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 188k freed
PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs1
PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa1

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PM: Removing info for No Bus:vcsa1
PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs1
PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa1
Adding 570296k swap on /dev/hda4. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:570296k
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2
b44.c:v1.01 (Jun 16, 2006)
PCI: setting IRQ 9 as level-triggered
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:02:00.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:1d.2
eth0: Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:15:c5:75:b0:96
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1d.7
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1b.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1f.1
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 11, io mem 0xb0000000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
PM: Adding info for usb:usb1
PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev1.1_ep00
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
PM: Adding info for usb:1-0:1.0
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev1.1_ep81
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1b.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1d.7
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1f.1
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 11, io base 0x0000bf80
PM: Adding info for usb:usb2
PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev2.1_ep00
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
PM: Adding info for usb:2-0:1.0
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
intel_rng: FWH not detected
PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev2.1_ep81
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:1d.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:02:03.0
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 10, io base 0x0000bf60
PM: Adding info for usb:usb3
PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev3.1_ep00
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
PM: Adding info for usb:3-0:1.0
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev3.1_ep81
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:1d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:02:00.0
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 9, io base 0x0000bf40
PM: Adding info for usb:usb4
PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev4.1_ep00
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
PM: Adding info for usb:4-0:1.0
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
PM: Adding info for No Bus:timer
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.0kmprq
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev4.1_ep81
PCI: setting IRQ 7 as level-triggered
PCI: Found IRQ 7 for device 0000:00:1d.3
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 0x0000bf20
PM: Adding info for usb:usb5
PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev5.1_ep00
usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
PM: Adding info for usb:5-0:1.0
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PM: Adding info for No Bus:usbdev5.1_ep81
agpgart: Detected an Intel 915GM Chipset.
agpgart: Detected 7932K stolen memory.
PM: Adding info for No Bus:agpgart
agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xc0000000
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:02:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:1d.1
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:1b.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1d.7
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
PM: Adding info for No Bus:0000:02:03.0
PM: Removing info for No Bus:0000:02:03.0
ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
PM: Adding info for No BuscmC0D1p
PM: Adding info for No BuscmC0D1c
PM: Adding info for No BuscmC0D0p
PM: Adding info for No BuscmC0D0c
PM: Adding info for No Bus:controlC0
NTFS driver 2.1.28 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.1.
PM: Removing info for No Bus:vcs1

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PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs1
PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa1
intel_rng: FWH not detected
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
PM: Adding info for No Bus:mixer

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PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa6
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'WEP'
PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs7
PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa7
[drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1b.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1d.7
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:1f.1
[drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0

Output of dmesg with acpi :

ing info for No Bustyc1
PM: Adding info for No Bustyc2

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PM: Adding info for No Bus:sxctl
PM: Adding info for No Bus:rtc
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
i8k: unable to get SMM BIOS version
Dell laptop SMM driver v1.14 21/02/2005 Massimo Dal Zotto (dz@debian.org)
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
PM: Adding info for platform:serial8250
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyS0
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyS1
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyS2
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ttyS3
PM: Adding info for No Bus:isa
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
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 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: Hitachi HTS541040G9AT00, ATA DISK drive
PM: Adding info for No Bus:ide0
hdb: HL-DT-ST DVD+/-RW GSA-T11N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Probing IDE interface ide1...
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
PM: Adding info for ide:0.0
PM: Adding info for ide:0.1
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 78140160 sectors (40007 MB) w/7539KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
PM: Adding info for platform:i8042
i8042.c: Warning: Keylock active.
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
PM: Adding info for serio:serio0
PM: Adding info for No Bussaux
PM: Adding info for serio:serio1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0xa5a0b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x200000
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input1
PM: Adding info for platform:dcdbas
dcdbas dcdbas: Dell Systems Management Base Driver (version 5.6.0-3.2)
TCP cubic registered
Initializing XFRM netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
Magic number: 3:417:241
hash matches device ttyse
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
ReiserFS: hda3: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda3: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hda3: journal params: device hda3, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda3: checking transaction log (hda3)
ReiserFS: hda3: Using r5 hash to sort names
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 188k freed
PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs1

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PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa1
Adding 570296k swap on /dev/hda4. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:570296k
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
NTFS driver 2.1.28 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.1.
PM: Removing info for No Bus:vcs1

-- Several lines similar to the previous and the next --

PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa1
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
PM: Adding info for No Bus:timer

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PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa6

Well, actually I have the same problem. I didn't find a concrete solution for this, however, it's a problem with framebuffer, I try to use it, then I have blank screen, but I did never loose any configuration 'cause the different screen mode, as you said.

Ok, but do you have acpi working?

can you still login from the blank screen? (sometimes if the fb is not setup correctly the screen will just go black but you can login blindly and startx)

can you ssh into this lappy, and see whats going on?

what stopped working?

did you boot acpi=off and vga=normal?

have you tried pci=nomsi?

are AGP & framebuffers modular in your kernel? if so did you mkinitrd?

can you dmesg/lsmod/lspci from the Kubuntu that worked and compare?

i know, not terribly helpful. just ideas to try...

I can login. I know that because i've managed to login as root and create a file.

No, no network working, even the cabled.

With acpi=off, i don't need vga=normal. I don't get the blank screen with acpi=off even with vga=773.


That something interesting. Will check.


Will do and place here.

Thanks, don't be shy. Every tip is welcome.

try logging in as your regular user (in the dark) and startx... that will tell you two things: 1) you're a good typist 2) your framebuffer is screwed up..

it seems to me that the iXXX chpsets are not so good at working as framebuffers, and leaving AGP modular (for DRI to work) I have a thread that more or less outlines my own personal failure at this, using an initrd to preload the fb modules.

if its your framebuffer thats screwed up then just set vga=normal and deal with it until you get your NIC working (my 2c). it also probably means its not necessarily an acpi problem.

Here's how i solved:

First, i used then gentoo live cd to boot. Acpi and vga=773 worked. Got the .config of the livecd's kernel and moved to slackware. There, i compiled the kernel and everything worked. So I decided to remove all the options in the kernel that i would not need. During this process, i realized that leaving Symmetric multi-processing support selected was a solution ( even though i don't have HT ). Don't know why, but it worked. I have acpi and framebuffer, and was able to remove all the other unnecessary options. My problem now is this :

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=549293

Thanks;

I had a problem with my older AMD system which needed the boot option

nosmp

and I have no clue why since the system isn't even close to a multi-processor.

Otherwise, I couldn't get the first graphical screen (the Q ubuntu screen with the old Robotic looking left/right grin ) as my screen would tell me that it was configured incorrectly - out of sync or some such message.

I also use noapic and nolapic but haven't tried to see if a smaller combination of these 3 options works.

Use the option pci=noacpi.

Why? I want acpi and i solved the problem.

Ok. The option "pci=noapci" will not disable the acpi. Look in the kernel documentation.