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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

  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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