Fedora 4 on XPS M140 HOWTo

Hello,

  I got my Dell XPS M140 two weeks backs and I have installed Fedora core 4 on it.Everything is working fine except sound.Wireless n/w was not working initially, but it worked fine once I installed intel wireless pro 2200 driver.

 Here is the step I followed,

   1. At first we need to make space available for linux. XPS M140 comes with windows XP installed on it (NTFS files system).You need to shrink the NTFS  file system using any tool.I have used partition magic 8.0.Its better to take backup if you have any sensitive data.My hard disk is of 80GB.There was around 40GB free space,I shrinked the partition using partition magic so that 20GB unallocated space is available for Linux.No need to format the disk for linux file system now, that can be done while installation.

  2. Follow the fedora core installation note..

     http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installation_notes.html

  3.Reboot the system once installation is done,it loads Fedora

  4.It hanged while loading as,

    Initializing hardware....Storage Network...

    I think it doesn't support sound card of the system,I am investigating on it. ,to get through you may
    disable the sound module.Comment the following in /etc/rc.sysinit

# Sound
#for module in `/sbin/modprobe -c | LC_ALL=C awk '/^alias[[:space:]]+snd-card-[[:digit:]]+[[:space:]]/ { print $3 }'` $audio; do
# load_module $module
#done

     If you don't have boot disk to get in and edit file, load from installation DVD/CD in rescue mode(F5) and follow up instructions.This will give you shell prompt.

 Please let me know if anybody has configured sound card for Feodara C4 in XPS M140.

Thanks.

 

I have more to add hopefully this helps.

I to had the same hang issue on installing FC4, so I installed CentOS 4.2 and it boots just fine w/ audio. Here is my output from my system. There is also something else that I notice during boot. When FC would hang at Storage, Network. CentOS completes it but there is an extra line "Disabling IRQ#7" Then a few services later is says "Disabling IRQ#10"

[root@m140-lt ~]# uname -a
Linux m140-lt 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL #1 Thu Oct 27 12:26:11 CDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


[root@m140-lt ~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
02:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd: Unknown device 0832
02:01.1 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
02:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd: Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
02:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
02:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)
02:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG MiniPCI Adapter (rev 05)

[root@m140-lt ~]# dmesg
Linux version 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL (buildcentos@x8664-build) (gcc version 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)) #1 Thu Oct 27 12:26:11 CDT 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007f7d3800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000007f7d3800 - 0000000080000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0007000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000f0008000 - 00000000f000c000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fed20000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
1143MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
zapping low mappings.
On node 0 totalpages: 522195
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 292819 pages, LIFO batch:16
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL ) @ 0x000fc9b0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d50b06 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x7f7d3fd3
ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d50b06 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x7f7d4c00
ACPI: MADT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d50b06 ASL 0x00000047) @ 0x7f7d5400
ACPI: MCFG (v016 DELL CPi R 0x27d50b06 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x7f7d53c0
ACPI: BOOT (v001 DELL CPi R 0x27d50b06 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x7f7d4fc0
ACPI: SSDT (v001 PmRef Cpu0Ist 0x00003000 INTL 0x20030522) @ 0x7f7d43e6
ACPI: SSDT (v001 PmRef Cpu0Cst 0x00003001 INTL 0x20030522) @ 0x7f7d420e
ACPI: SSDT (v001 PmRef CpuPm 0x00003000 INTL 0x20030522) @ 0x7f7d4013
ACPI: DSDT (v001 INT430 SYSFexxx 0x00001001 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/vg0/lv0 vga=771
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c03e5000 soft=c03e4000
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
Detected 1995.314 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 2066112k/2088780k available (2111k kernel code, 21752k reserved, 667k data, 144k init, 1171276k highmem)
Calibrating delay loop... 3923.96 BogoMIPS (lpj=1961984)
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Initializing.
SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
There is already a security framework initialized, register_security failed.
selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: afe9fbff 00100000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: afe9fbff 00100000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
CPU: After all inits, caps: afe9f3ff 00100000 00000000 00000040
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz stepping 08
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger.
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 1060k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbaae, last bus=13
PCI: Using MMCONFIG
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040816
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.2
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 9 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 5 7) *10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *9 10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 5 *7 9 10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCIE._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.RP01._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.RP02._PRT]
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.0 : no GSI - using IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1b.0 : no GSI - using IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1c.0 : no GSI
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1c.1 : no GSI
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.0 : no GSI - using IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.1 : no GSI - using IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.2 : no GSI - using IRQ 9
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.3 : no GSI - using IRQ 7
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.7 : no GSI - using IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.2 : no GSI - using IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 9
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:00.0 -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.0 -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.1 -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.2 -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.3 -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:01.4 -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 7
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:03.0 -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
Simple Boot Flag at 0x79 set to 0x1
apm: BIOS not found.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1137256768.687:1): initialized
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
ksign: Installing public key data
Loading keyring
- Added public key 588271CB89D69C49
- User ID: CentOS (Kernel Module GPG key)
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xc0000000, mapped to 0xf8880000, size 937k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x8, linelength=832, pages=14
vesafb: protected mode interface info at 00ff:44f0
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Pseudocolor: size=8:8:8:8, shift=0:0:0:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2 C3, 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM] (51 C)
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device lo
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ide0: I/O resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free.
ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: _NEC DVD+/-RW ND-6650A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
Using cfq io scheduler
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1
Firmware: 6.2
Sensor: 1
new absolute packet format
Touchpad has extended capability bits
-> multifinger detection
-> palm detection
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 128Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 524288 bind 37449)
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S4bios S5)
ACPI wakeup devices:
LID PBTN PCI0 USB0 USB1 USB2 USB4 USB3 AZAL MODM PCIE RP01 RP02 RP03 RP04 RP05 RP06
Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 1.11 loaded.
ata_piix version 1.03
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.2 : no GSI - using IRQ 10
ata: 0x170 IDE port busy
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xBFA0 irq 14
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:0f00 82:746b 83:7fe9 84:4023 85:7469 86:3e49 87:4023 88:203f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/100, 153356490 sectors: lba48
ata1(0): applying bridge limits
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/100
scsi0 : ata_piix
Vendor: ATA Model: Hitachi HTS72108 Rev: MC4O
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 153356490 512-byte hdwr sectors (78519 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
cdrom: open failed.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: Disabled at runtime.
SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks
inserting floppy driver for 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
b44.c:v0.95 (Aug 3, 2004)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:00.0 -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:14:22:91:17:fb
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.0
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:03.0 -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ 7
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
ipw2200: ipw-2.2-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth1
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:03.0 failed with error -5
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1b.0 : no GSI - using IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
hw_random: cannot enable RNG, aborting
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
pciehp: acpi_pciehprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.7 : no GSI - using IRQ 11
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 11, pci mem f896e800
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.0 : no GSI - using IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 11, io base 0000bf80
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.1 : no GSI - using IRQ 10
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
irq 10: nobody cared! (screaming interrupt?)
irq 10: Please try booting with acpi=off and report a bug
[] __report_bad_irq+0x3a/0x77
[] note_interrupt+0x191/0x1b7
[] do_IRQ+0x209/0x2bf
[] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20
[] __do_softirq+0x2c/0x79
[] do_softirq+0x46/0x4d
=======================
[] do_IRQ+0x2b3/0x2bf
[] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20
[] setup_irq+0x172/0x181
[] usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x4b
[] request_irq+0x81/0x96
[] usb_hcd_pci_probe+0x2ea/0x428
[] pci_device_probe_static+0x2a/0x3d
[] __pci_device_probe+0x1b/0x2c
[] pci_device_probe+0x1b/0x2d
[] bus_match+0x27/0x45
[] driver_attach+0x37/0x66
[] bus_add_driver+0x77/0x97
[] driver_register+0x51/0x58
[] pci_register_driver+0x85/0xa1
[] uhci_hcd_init+0x94/0xdd [uhci_hcd]
[] sys_init_module+0x1f1/0x2d9
[] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
handlers:
[] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x4b)
Disabling IRQ #10
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 10, io base 0000bf60
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.2 : no GSI - using IRQ 9
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 9, io base 0000bf40
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.3 : no GSI - using IRQ 7
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 7, io base 0000bf20
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using address 2
irq 7: nobody cared! (screaming interrupt?)
irq 7: Please try booting with acpi=off and report a bug
[] __report_bad_irq+0x3a/0x77
[] note_interrupt+0x191/0x1b7
[] do_IRQ+0x209/0x2bf
[] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20
[] __do_softirq+0x2c/0x79
[] do_softirq+0x46/0x4d
=======================
[] do_IRQ+0x2b3/0x2bf
[] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20
[] acpi_processor_idle+0x127/0x1d5
[] cpu_idle+0x1f/0x34
[] start_kernel+0x214/0x216
handlers:
[] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x4b)
Disabling IRQ #7
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SBTN]
EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal
cdrom: open failed.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding 2048276k swap on /dev/sda3. Priority:-1 extents:1
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14
usb 3-1: control timeout on ep0out
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: Unlink after no-IRQ? Different ACPI or APIC settings may help.
microcode: No new microdata for cpu 0
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver v1.14 unregistered
usb 3-1: control timeout on ep0out
usb 3-1: device not accepting address 2, error -110
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using address 3
usb 3-1: control timeout on ep0out
usb 3-1: control timeout on ep0out
usb 3-1: device not accepting address 3, error -110
usb 4-1: new low speed USB device using address 2
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)] on usb-0000:00:1d.2-1
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
b44: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
i2c /dev entries driver
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c0376de0(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mtrr: 0xc0000000,0x400000 overlaps existing 0xc0000000,0x80000

I hope with this extra info we might together be able to find solution.

Chris

Hello,

  Partition magic may be available for free trial, Google "Free partition magic 8.0 download"

Thanks,

Hello,

  Oh gr8, you bought the complete version of partition magic :-)

I have mentioned about the hanging of fedora Core4 in my first post( step 4)..

Pasting here for your reference,

"4.It hanged while loading as,

    Initializing hardware....Storage Network...

    I think it doesn't support sound card of the system,I am investigating on it. ,to get through you may
    disable the sound module.Comment the following in /etc/rc.sysinit

# Sound
#for module in `/sbin/modprobe -c | LC_ALL=C awk '/^alias[[:space:]]+snd-card-[[:digit:]]+[[:space:]]/ { print $3 }'` $audio; do
# load_module $module
#done

     If you don't have boot disk to get in and edit file, load from installation DVD/CD in rescue mode(F5) and follow up instructions.This will give you shell prompt."

Thanks,

This is an update FYI

I installed SUSE-OSS 10.0 and everything was found but the modem.

Chris

Cris, thanks a lot for the info..

Hi Malachai,

 You don't need a floppy drive and no need to create rescue in other machines, 

1.Insert your Fedora installation CD/DVD and boot from CD/DVD.(For XPS M140 press F12 while starting and change boot to CD/DVD ,default is hard drive).If you got CD, then boot using first installation CD

2.It loads from installation CD/DVD , press F5 to go to rescue mode.

3.After pressing F5 you will get "boot:" prompt, type 'linux rescue' and enter,

4.Wait for kernel to load,select language (English) , Keyboard type (us), No need to start network services..

5.You will get a shell prompt, type->  'chroot /mnt/sysimage'  and enter

# Sound
#for module in `/sbin/modprobe -c | LC_ALL=C awk '/^alias[[:space:]]+snd-card-[[:digit:]]+[[:space:]]/ { print $3 }'` $audio; do
# load_module $module
#done

  7.Type ' exit' at command prompt to reboot..

 8.It will start loading fedora from harddisk...

Check out for the updates from Fedora for sound...

Thanks,

sudhe

 

 

 

I have more to add again I added this line to my grub.conf file

Kernel agrument "acpi=off" fixed the hang at boot


title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=/dev/vg0/lv0 acpi=off vga=771
initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img

Hi,

 Do you have any luck on playing sound with FC4 on XPSM140, not getting any hit , most of the searches hit to this forum :-)

Thanks,

Sudhe

 

 

Upgradeing to the 2.6.14 kernel from Fedora allowed the sound to work correctly. There is a little bit of "hissing" when playing music but that is ok for right now.

yum install kernel

That is the command I used.

Next I will be working on video card drivers


Chris

For good graphics on m140, use 855resolution from http://perso.wanadoo.fr/apoirier/
Worked perfectly for me.