My friend has a Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop. We are having problems with the 2.2.15 kernel. It boots fine with the 2.0.36 kernel, but recent attempts to boot the 2.2.15 kernel have it freezing at the line
"running ntpdate to syncronise clock"" or something like that. Now I suspect the problem has nothing to do with ntpdate. We have had problems with this kernel ever since it was compiled. Previously we have had the problem that the console keyboard freezes, making it impossible to use the machine, except when it was connected via ethernet and you telnetted in from outside. We "overcame" this problem by getting it to boot straight into xdm (kdm). This meant we didn't need to get near the consoles in order to use the machine. Of course we still couldn't use the consoles with much success. Recently, changing to a console results in a blank screen with a thin horizontal line running across it. Anyway, now it won't even boot at all which is a real problem. I suspected the problem may be an apm one, but when I booted with the option "apm=off" it still hung at the same place! Does anyone know what's wrong or what I can do about it? It's very frustrating. Clearly it's some difference between the 2.0.36 kernel and the 2.2.15, but if it isn't power management, what else could it be? Any other kernel options that could be causing the problem? Thanks in advance, Mark. _/~~~~~~~~___/~~~~~~____________________________________________________ ____/~~_____/~~__/~~__________________________Mark_Phillips____________ ____/~~_____/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ____/~~\HE___/~~__/~~\APTAIN_____________________________________________ ____/~~______/~~~~~~____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"