Installation issues with 2011.6

[AS]

from previous jzakiya's post:

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7) Installed from LIVE USB using standard default settings

Installed kernel is 2.6.38.8-pclos1.bfs

9) Installed Graphic Card setting is Intel:810 and later (see 4)

10) Must use F3:No ACPI setting at kernel select screen to boot into full video mode

11) Only one core is detected

12) Poweroff hangs (manual poweroff necessary)

13) Problem exists for all kernel > 2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs

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That was the only report/configuration that caused only one core to be recognized.

[AS]

from previous jzakiya's post:

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7) Installed from LIVE USB using standard default settings

Installed kernel is 2.6.38.8-pclos1.bfs

9) Installed Graphic Card setting is Intel:810 and later (see 4)

10) Must use F3:No ACPI setting at kernel select screen to boot into full video mode

11) Only one core is detected

12) Poweroff hangs (manual poweroff necessary)

13) Problem exists for all kernel > 2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs

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That was the only report/configuration that caused only one core to be recognized.

Quoting myself:  

now it seems to remember that selecting No ACPI (or Safe Mode), imply the boot param nosmp ....

[Old-Polack]

as:

The connection with the noacpi parameter I understand, but I guess I'm questioning the use of that parameter when booting the installed system. The liveCD uses the parameter acpi=on except with the Safe boot entry. When jzakiya boots to the liveCD with that parameter, the system boots and all the cores are recognized. The only difference between the liveCD and the installed system on that machine is the location of the system files. Same hardware, same kernel, same system files.

It seems to me he needs to lose that noacpi parameter and configure a proper video driver, rather than changing the kernel to an almost obsolete version.

From the liveCD isolinux.cfg:

label LiveCD
    kernel vmlinuz
    append livecd=livecd initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/rd/3 acpi=on vga=788 keyb=us vmalloc=256M nokmsboot splash=silent
label LiveCD - No Boot Splash
    kernel vmlinuz
    append livecd=livecd initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/rd/3 acpi=on vga=788 keyb=us vmalloc=256M nokmsboot splash=verbose
label Video safe mode - VESA
    kernel vmlinuz
    append livecd=livecd initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/rd/3 acpi=on vga=788 keyb=us vmalloc=256M nokmsboot splash=silent vesa
label Safe boot
    kernel vmlinuz
    append livecd=livecd initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/rd/3 acpi=off vga=normal keyb=us vmalloc=256M noapic nolapic nopinit vesa
label Console
    kernel vmlinuz
    append livecd=livecd 3 initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/rd/3 acpi=on vga=788 keyb=us vmalloc=256M nokmsboot splash=silent
label Copy to RAM
    kernel vmlinuz
    append livecd=livecd copy2ram initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/rd/3 acpi=on vga=788 keyb=us vmalloc=256M nokmsboot splash=verbose
label Install PCLinuxOS
    kernel vmlinuz
    append livecd=livecd initrd=initrd.gz root=/dev/rd/3 acpi=on vga=788 keyb=us vmalloc=256M nokmsboot splash=silent install

[AS]

as:

It seems to me he needs to lose that noacpi parameter and configure a proper video driver, rather than changing the kernel to an almost obsolete version.

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,95542.msg805703.html#msg805703

Fully agreed!

AS

[Old-Polack]

as:

It seems to me he needs to lose that noacpi parameter and configure a proper video driver, rather than changing the kernel to an almost obsolete version.

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,95542.msg805703.html#msg805703

Fully agreed!

AS

I must be doing too many things at the same time, and staying up way too late.. How did I manage to miss that reply?  

I came into the thread at his followup reply, about conclusively determining a problem with the newer kernels, which struck me as so absurd, I had to comment. I read his first post, then skipped down to that one, and in the process missed the replies in between. Next time I do that, slap me, to get my full attention.  

If you aren't laughing at me... I am.

[AS]

If you aren't laughing at me... I am.

Absolutely not, I'm not laughing, first I found nothing wrong in your posts, second I know that there are so many variables to take into considerations that it's very easy to miss a single one, third I'm glad we reached more or less the same conclusions.
That's why I always think that four eyes (or more) can look better than two. 

Now it could be interesting to read about jzakiya progress with his issue. 

AS

[djohnston]

O-P has caught so many omissions on my part. He's entitled to a few himself.

[Old-Polack]

O-P has caught so many omissions on my part. He's entitled to a few himself.

I tend to find a bit of humor in seeing someone miss something obvious, and pointing it out. For some strange reason I find it even funnier when I'm the guy that missed the obvious. Then again, I've always been a bit weird, and never claimed otherwise. 

I figure, if you can't laugh at yourself, you sort of forfeit the right to laugh at others.

[jzakiya]

OK, I thought I'd just do a followup for historical purposes.

Yesterday, I 'fixed' the video problems, and now I have almost a new machine (comparatively).

I mistakenly booted up in the compressed video mode, and said to myself, 'let me see if I can
change the video mode again' (this had failed all previous times).

So I went into PCC while in compressed video (half the screen) and noticed the video card was
now stating Intel 810 or greater. So I changed the video resolution from 1024x768 to 1336x768,
(the native screen resolution), rebooted without selecting the NO ACPI option form F3, and voila,
it booted into full screen full resolution video mode with all 4 cores detected and accessible!

Somehow, the video driver got updated, because it absolutely hadn't been an 810 driver in the
video card list (only up to 710). So that WAS the initial video problem.

Now that I don't have to turn off ACPI in order to get full screen video, the laptop has a significant
increase in speed and power management. Before, the battery monitor didn't monitor the battery,
but now it does.

The USB bootdrive issue still exists, but at least now I have a fully hardware functioning laptop.

Almost like Xmas in March. 

[djohnston]

Glad to see you got it fixed ... after so many months. Sometimes, it's the little things that make a big difference.