gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.7 and P4 with hyperthreading

Eldrin · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 26

The 2.6.7 gentoo-dev-sources seems to have a problem on my box. It's a Gateway M350X laptop. I've tried 2.6.7, 2.6.7-r3 and 2.6.7-r5. If I don't disable the hyperthreading feature from the bios of my laptop, I get a blank screen when I try to boot it. Nothing more, just a blank screen after grub.

I've tried playing with the ACPI settings, since that made a difference in the 2.4 series, but to no avail. I've also tried playing with the SMP settings, but that hasn't done any good either.

This is irritating because I don't have any information to report along with this bug. Obviously I can't capture what's going wrong in any way.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Is anyone else having this sort of problem?

Eldrin
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kriz · Apprentice Joined: 22 Jan 2003 Posts: 231

hi
same config, same error.
after boot i got an blank screen.
only acpi=off will bring up the system.
look

Eldrin · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 26

Interesting, because when I didn't compile power management into the kernel at all, I got the same issue.
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paranode · l33t Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 679 Location: Texas

I'm having a similar issue. Whenever it boots with ACPI enabled, it locks. If I use acpi=off, it boots but there is only one processor when there should be 2 (hyperthreading).
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Meh.

Eldrin · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 26

I had the same issue. I think maybe hyperthreading support isn't ready yet.

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paranode · l33t Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 679 Location: Texas