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Puppy 4.1 Boot Freezing
Posted: Wed 08 Oct 2008, 23:06
by Brandon
I have an Athon 62 X2 5000+ with 2GB RAM. I installed puppy 4.1, not retro, and then installed DEVX. I go to boot and After some module USB probing, And about the number 15, I get a # and the system freezes.
Posted: Wed 08 Oct 2008, 23:42
by Béèm
the # is normally the command promt and you could type commands.
What happens if you type xwin or xorgwizard?
Posted: Wed 08 Oct 2008, 23:44
by Brandon
The system freezes. I can't type.
EDIT: I plugged in my PS/2 keyboard and its working.
Posted: Thu 09 Oct 2008, 00:35
by Béèm
Seems logic that you can't type when the keyboard isn't plugged in, no?
Posted: Thu 09 Oct 2008, 03:53
by Lobster
I an not sure if related but there is a problem with USB tarball - check Barrys blog for 9th October 2008 - part of which is below
Firmware installation problem
There is a problem with how 4.1 installs a firmware tarball. It only affects the 'dvb-usb.ko' module. At the 12th hour, just before releasing 4.1, I threw in some firmware for this module, but we have now found that the firmware tarball does not install when the dvb-usb.ko module loads for the first time
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Posted: Thu 09 Oct 2008, 23:29
by Brandon
I had a USB keyboard in, Beem.
Posted: Fri 10 Oct 2008, 20:47
by Marblemike
I an not sure if related but there is a problem with USB tarball - check Barrys blog for 9th October 2008 - part of which is below
I had a similar problem with a USB webcam freezing the 4.1 boot. I haven't tested the fix yet because I blew my laptop's USB ports today
, but it seems like that's the problem.
Posted: Fri 10 Oct 2008, 20:58
by Béèm
Brandon wrote:I had a USB keyboard in, Beem.
What an idea.
Posted: Sat 11 Oct 2008, 07:19
by Marblemike
I manually installed the dvb-usb firmware and tried on my other pc (the one with USB ports that work...), but it didn't fix the boot freeze problem. When the USB webcam is plugged in the boot freezes at the stage:
"loading kernel drivers needed to access disk drives..."
As soon as I unplug the webcam the boot continues. The system I'm working on requires the webcam to be plugged in at all times and its difficult to access the USB ports so I can't just unplug the webcam each boot. I can grab a frame from the webcam once booted so I'm assuming the webcam drivers are not the problem.
I think this is now a different problem to Brandons. Does anyone have any ideas?
Posted: Sat 11 Oct 2008, 12:24
by Brandon
I was using my PS/2 keyboard, for the last couple days, so today I tried the USB one, and everything is working fine.
BTW: I love my USB keyboards, $10 with a mouse, solid HP multimedia keyboard.