[64studio-devel] 2.0 1394 Issue

[mike at sonicfrog.net]

Free wrote:

<i>

I've packaged a new 2.6.22 kernel, it's in the testing APT branch and
you find the ISOs here:

http://cdd.64studio.com/releases/64studio/64studio_master_amd64.iso
http://cdd.64studio.com/releases/64studio/64studio_master_i386.iso

Please would give it a try and see if the problem still persists?

Ciao!

Free</i>


Thank Free. i'll give it a whirl this afternoon.

PS. I might have found the problem. Yesterday I was reinstalling Etch on 
the same computer and kept running into strange issues, no network, 
incomplete package install, etc. First I was using a new DVD image I got 
from LinuxWorld (it ROCKED), but after the install failures, I found an 
old Etch CD iso from 11/06. Same buggy install effort. My laptop often 
has issues with DVD iso's, but that wasn't the problem here as I had 
used this same CD to install Etch at least twice before, and it ran 
flawlessly on this laptop, so I was perplexed as to why I was having so 
many problems. Then I realized I was doing something different from the 
past successful installs. On every install that failing in this 
go-'round, I was installing the distro with the option apci=off as I 
have had power management issues in the past. Apparently the Pavilion 
ze5570us doesn't like that much. Last night I tried to install Etch from 
the DVD and today I am typing this from the laptop, so obviously all 
went well on the install when I didn't mess with the acpi settings.


Free Ekanayaka wrote:
> Hi Mike,
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>   m> Hey Guys!
>   m> I can't believe 2.0 is already out. I had downloaded the beta a month
>   m> ago and never got around to installing it :-). I had installed 1.3 Alpha
>   m> successfully on my laptop. I just upgraded to 2.0 and now old and new
>   m> versions freeze as they start to load from Grub. It's an 1394 firewire /
>   m> IRQ issue that generates an endless loop. Here is the error message:
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>   m>  =======================
>   m> handlers:
>   m> [<f8860223>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x49 [usbcore])
>   m> [<f8860223>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x49 [usbcore])
>   m> [<f8860223>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x49 [usbcore])
>   m> irq 10: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
>   m>  [<c013e3ca>] __report_bad_irq+0x36/0x7d
>   m>  [<f8860244>] usb_hcd_irq+0x21/0x49 [usbcore]
>   m>  [<c013e5a6>] note_interrupt+0x195/0x1c3
>   m>  [<c0103e7a>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
>   m>  [<c013db79>] thread_simple_irq+0x54/0x60
>   m>  [<c013e1e8>] do_irqd+0xce/0x27a
>   m>  [<c013e11a>] do_irqd+0x0/0x27a
>   m>  [<c012c12c>] kthread+0xc4/0xf0
>   m>  [<c012c068>] kthread+0x0/0xf0
>   m>  [<c01040a7>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
>   m>  =======================
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>   m> My laptop is an HP ze5570us. Any thoughts?
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