From: Matthias-Christian Ott <matthias.christian@tiscali.de>
To: Oliver Antwerpen <olli@giesskaennchen.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug in SLES8 kernel 2.4.x freezing HP DL740/760
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:50:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4213B1FC.4020706@tiscali.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4213AB2B.2050604@giesskaennchen.de>
Oliver Antwerpen wrote:
> Hi out there,
>
> If there is anybody out there using SLES8 on HP ProLiant DL740/760:
> BEWARE!
>
> SuSE has patched UNICON into the kernel which will cause these servers
> to hang when booted with vga=normal. The system will run fine in
> fb-mode, but not in plain text.
>
> I cannot see, where this UNICON-patch comes from, it seems that is has
> been developed by some turbolinux-coders.
>
> HP and SuSE have not been able to either fix this problem or at least
> warn someone about this bug, so I will do it now.
> The bug is known since Nov 13th 2004.
>
> If there should be anybody who can help, please contact me.
>
> I hope this information will help someone to not run into deep trouble.
>
> Oliver Antwerpen
>
>
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Well if you don't need unicon, then remove the patch from the .spec file
and rebuild the kernel (from the source rpm). Or report it their bug
tracking system.
Matthias-Christian Ott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-16 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-16 20:20 Bug in SLES8 kernel 2.4.x freezing HP DL740/760 Oliver Antwerpen
2005-02-16 20:50 ` Matthias-Christian Ott [this message]
2005-02-16 21:03 ` Oliver Antwerpen
2005-02-17 10:28 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-02-17 14:08 ` AMD 64 and Kernel AGPart support Marc Cramdal
2005-02-17 14:42 ` Paolo Ornati
2005-02-17 15:10 ` ________________: " Paolo Ornati
2005-02-17 15:26 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-02-17 15:33 ` Paolo Ornati
2005-02-17 17:02 ` spam mails with the same Message-ID Adrian Bunk
2005-02-17 19:46 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-02-18 18:07 ` Sis760 chipset support Marc Cramdal
2005-02-19 4:45 ` Dave Jones
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