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pschram
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 Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:11 pm Post subject: Dell D620 boot fails when lid is closed |
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I have a Dell laptop which is staying inside a docking station usually. During boot the lid must not be closed or Gentoo won't boot. It gets past the grub-screen but then stalls. Unfortunately I cannot see what messages appear as the console output is not visible during boot on my docking monitor (this is a separate problem I have to tackle). When I make sure the lid is not closed it boots ok and I can close the lid afterwards. However this is a cumbersome workaround which I would like to avoid.
I'm using kernel 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 SMP
Any ideas on how to tackle this? |
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pschram
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| Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject: Re: Dell D620 boot fails when lid is closed |
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| pschram wrote: | I have a Dell laptop which is staying inside a docking station usually. During boot the lid must not be closed or Gentoo won't boot. It gets past the grub-screen but then stalls. Unfortunately I cannot see what messages appear as the console output is not visible during boot on my docking monitor (this is a separate problem I have to tackle). When I make sure the lid is not closed it boots ok and I can close the lid afterwards. However this is a cumbersome workaround which I would like to avoid.
I'm using kernel 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 SMP
Any ideas on how to tackle this? |
I've moved to the 2.6.22-gentoo-r9 kernel and added framebuffer options to the grub config. And now things are fine, I can see the console during boot and also the lid can stay closed without problems. So the problem has gone away entirely by moving to a new version of the kernel. |
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