| Art Alexion on 30 Nov 2006 17:25:45 -0000 |
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Will, thanks for trying to help with this. I really appreciate it. On Wednesday 29 November 2006 14:51, Will Dyson wrote: > On 11/29/06, Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net> wrote: > > > What might help is updating the BIOS on your laptop, since the > > > BIOS-provided ACPI tables are the most likely source of the bizarre > > > bogus serial ports. Grrr. Vendors.... > > > > > > Try booting with acpi=off as a first step. I tried this. Hald still stalled and failed, and I still have 48 serial ports. By the way, this is not a laptop, but an older Compaq Deskpro. Also Dapper, not Edgy. > > > > I think we are getting closer to the solution. The dist-upgrade went > > badly. Lots of things were deleted and not upgraded. One of the things > > was the kernel. It would not boot. Here is the original problem > > description: > > Well, before, the problem was that the new kernel for Edgy had not > been installed, and so the system would not boot (it was relying on > features of the new kernel). > > Now the correct kernel is installed, but it is "detecting" hardware > that your laptop definitely does not have (48 serial ports). > > Whenever the kernel's hardware detection routines are giving bad > results, ACPI is a prime suspect. This is because the ACPI standard > allows the system BIOS to specify what hardware is present. This is > great most of the time. But sometimes the vendor's BIOS team is > smoking rock when they write the BIOS, or (more charitably) they > interpret the standard differently than Linux's ACPI code does. I am currently installing a new kernel to see if this solves the problem. -- _____________________________________________________________ Art Alexion PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A Keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html _____________________________________________________________ Attachment:
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