gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r4 and Dell Inspiron 5000e

drumz · Apprentice Joined: 10 Nov 2002 Posts: 213

Howdy all:

I hope someone might have some insight into this one, as it's got me stumped. I have the above mentioned version of genkernel isntalled, and am trying to go from r1 to r4 of the 2.4.22 gentoo sources kernel.

I originally used genkernel and the r1 release of the 2.4.22 which has been running smoothly for me. The uprade, however, is a different story.

If I install the updated kernel (either using genkernel, or compiling by hand) and reboot, I get the grub screen, select my newly installed kernel, and then get a black screen. The only other indicator are two led lights that are flashing (caps lock indicator and whatever the other lock led is to the right (NOT num lock light)). It seems that no matter what I turn on/off the results are the same. Laptop is a dell inspiron 5000e.

Is this possibly some incompatibility between my laptop and this kernel rev? I haven't tried a vanilla kernel yet (spent most of yesterday/today compiling various versions of the gentoo-sources kernel using/not using genkernel), compiling kernels takes a while on my starting to age laptop.

Personally, I have no reason to up the kernel except for any security patches that may be included in this update - so I have no problem staying at my current kernel. I'd just like to know if I'm alone with this issue or if others are experiencing similar probs or have seen this issue in the past.

TIA,
Drumz

drumz · Apprentice Joined: 10 Nov 2002 Posts: 213

Last night I emerged an update to genkernel, and tried it with the vanilla sources. No luck, same problem. I'm going to try a hand compile/install and see if that makes a difference. It's starting to appear that something _may_ have changed that's incompatible with my laptop, either a feature is turned on/off by default or a patch. Hopefully I'll be albe to eventually narrow it down more.

drumz · Apprentice Joined: 10 Nov 2002 Posts: 213

I manually configured/compiled the 2.4.24 vanilla source kernel and installed it. I'm now happily running this kernel. So it appears that for my particular laptop the genkernel scripts are turning something on/off that causes a Dell 5000e laptop to burp on boot.

Although I liked the start-walk away capability of the genkernel script, I'm returning to doing it by hand again.

drumz