Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261866AbVBPUuI (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:50:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261874AbVBPUuH (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:50:07 -0500 Received: from relay1.tiscali.de ([62.26.116.129]:41103 "EHLO webmail.tiscali.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261866AbVBPUuA (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:50:00 -0500 Message-ID: <4213B1FC.4020706@tiscali.de> Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:50:04 +0100 From: Matthias-Christian Ott User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050108) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oliver Antwerpen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bug in SLES8 kernel 2.4.x freezing HP DL740/760 References: <4213AB2B.2050604@giesskaennchen.de> In-Reply-To: <4213AB2B.2050604@giesskaennchen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1441 Lines: 42 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 > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/