Hi @ll,

i emerged first of all kdevelop everything works fine after that i
installed kde in this process emerge hangs with white lines left on the
screens. After i retry same problem again.

I am a little bit frustrated because the installing take a very long
while on a ibm laptop ibm t20 and to configure the hardware also very
difficult on this laptop and now it hangs on a simple software
installation.

Cu,

indika

indika enlightened us with:
> i emerged first of all kdevelop everything works fine after that i
> installed kde in this process emerge hangs with white lines left on
> the screens. After i retry same problem again.

Only white lines? No error message? No status message? You can't read
anything on the screen?

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indika wrote:
>
> i emerged first of all kdevelop everything works fine after that i
> installed kde in this process emerge hangs with white lines left on the
> screens. After i retry same problem again.
>
> I am a little bit frustrated because the installing take a very long
> while on a ibm laptop ibm t20 and to configure the hardware also very
> difficult on this laptop and now it hangs on a simple software
> installation.

Perhaps the CPU is getting too hot. If your laptop has ACPI support,
make sure you've enabled:

Power management options (ACPI, APM) --->
ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support --->
<*> Processor
<*> Thermal Zone

Hth,
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Ben M.

Ben Measures wrote:
> indika wrote:
>
>>i emerged first of all kdevelop everything works fine after that i
>>installed kde in this process emerge hangs with white lines left on the
>>screens. After i retry same problem again.
>>
>>I am a little bit frustrated because the installing take a very long
>>while on a ibm laptop ibm t20 and to configure the hardware also very
>>difficult on this laptop and now it hangs on a simple software
>>installation.
>
>
> Perhaps the CPU is getting too hot. If your laptop has ACPI support,
> make sure you've enabled:
>
> Power management options (ACPI, APM) --->
> ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface) Support --->
> <*> Processor
> <*> Thermal Zone
>
> Hth,

I have to deactivate acpi because of the network card my modules get
only recognized when acpi is off. I took instead of acpi apm this
doesn't work either. The network card works but apm does not work right.
I didn't thought that i really need acpi but when a laptop requires
this... I think that the processor gets to warm that could be on all
this long compiling sessions. i will try suse 9.3 on my laptop because
the support is much better and try gentoo on a destop computer this will
be much easier for me.

cu,

indika

indika wrote:
> Ben Measures wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps the CPU is getting too hot. If your laptop has ACPI support,
>> make sure you've enabled:
>>
>> <*> Thermal Zone
>
> I have to deactivate acpi because of the network card my modules get
> only recognized when acpi is off. I took instead of acpi apm this
> doesn't work either. The network card works but apm does not work right.
> I didn't thought that i really need acpi but when a laptop requires
> this... I think that the processor gets to warm that could be on all
> this long compiling sessions. i will try suse 9.3 on my laptop because
> the support is much better and try gentoo on a destop computer this will
> be much easier for me.

It sounds like your laptop's BIOS ACPI implementation is broken.
Thankfully, there is a workaround.

Simply append
acpi=noirq
to the kernel parameters (in Grub or LILO).

This will disable ACPI for IRQ routing and leave the rest of ACPI (such
as the 'Thermal Zone') enabled. In most cases this should be enough to
get your network card recognised, and still have ACPI manage your CPU's
thermals.

Hth,
--
Ben M.

Ben Measures wrote:
> indika wrote:
>
>>Ben Measures wrote:
>>
>>>Perhaps the CPU is getting too hot. If your laptop has ACPI support,
>>>make sure you've enabled:
>>>
>>><*> Thermal Zone
>>
>>I have to deactivate acpi because of the network card my modules get
>>only recognized when acpi is off. I took instead of acpi apm this
>>doesn't work either. The network card works but apm does not work right.
>>I didn't thought that i really need acpi but when a laptop requires
>>this... I think that the processor gets to warm that could be on all
>>this long compiling sessions. i will try suse 9.3 on my laptop because
>>the support is much better and try gentoo on a destop computer this will
>> be much easier for me.
>
>
> It sounds like your laptop's BIOS ACPI implementation is broken.
> Thankfully, there is a workaround.
>
> Simply append
> acpi=noirq
> to the kernel parameters (in Grub or LILO).
>
> This will disable ACPI for IRQ routing and leave the rest of ACPI (such
> as the 'Thermal Zone') enabled. In most cases this should be enough to
> get your network card recognised, and still have ACPI manage your CPU's
> thermals.
>
> Hth,
thank you very much i will test it !!!

Cu,

indika

P.S. I will tell you if everything works.

Ben Measures wrote:
> indika wrote:
>
>>Ben Measures wrote:
>>
>>>Perhaps the CPU is getting too hot. If your laptop has ACPI support,
>>>make sure you've enabled:
>>>
>>><*> Thermal Zone
>>
>>I have to deactivate acpi because of the network card my modules get
>>only recognized when acpi is off. I took instead of acpi apm this
>>doesn't work either. The network card works but apm does not work right.
>>I didn't thought that i really need acpi but when a laptop requires
>>this... I think that the processor gets to warm that could be on all
>>this long compiling sessions. i will try suse 9.3 on my laptop because
>>the support is much better and try gentoo on a destop computer this will
>> be much easier for me.
>
>
> It sounds like your laptop's BIOS ACPI implementation is broken.
> Thankfully, there is a workaround.
>
> Simply append
> acpi=noirq
> to the kernel parameters (in Grub or LILO).
>
> This will disable ACPI for IRQ routing and leave the rest of ACPI (such
> as the 'Thermal Zone') enabled. In most cases this should be enough to
> get your network card recognised, and still have ACPI manage your CPU's
> thermals.
>
> Hth,
sry, but it is not working.
my network card is not installed.

any other idea, would be nice.

Cu,

indika

indika wrote:
> Ben Measures wrote:
>
>> It sounds like your laptop's BIOS ACPI implementation is broken.
>> Thankfully, there is a workaround.
>>
>> Simply append
>> acpi=noirq
>> to the kernel parameters (in Grub or LILO).
>
> sry, but it is not working.
> my network card is not installed.

Any error messages?

What's the output of 'lspci -v'?

--
Ben M.

Ben Measures wrote:
> indika wrote:
>
>>Ben Measures wrote:
>>
>>
>>>It sounds like your laptop's BIOS ACPI implementation is broken.
>>>Thankfully, there is a workaround.
>>>
>>>Simply append
>>>acpi=noirq
>>>to the kernel parameters (in Grub or LILO).
>>
>>sry, but it is not working.
>>my network card is not installed.
>
>
> Any error messages?
>
> What's the output of 'lspci -v'?
>
lspci -v Command not found !

Maybe this helps: IBM T20 laptop.
I found many sites of this problems but no work around works.

cu,

indika