Installed FC4 on Sony Vaio FJ series now hangs on boot

[ggulik]

I just installed FC4 on a Sony Vaio FJ series. The install went just fine but it now hangs on boot at the following line:

Hardware Initialization: storage network

Doing a google search I found someone else with the same problem and he suggested that using the "irqpoll" kernel boot parameter helps but it doesn't work in my case. It still hangs.

Any ideas/suggestions?

[hotdog]

Can't really tell where it's going wrong from that line. If you remove the rhgb and quiet boot parameters more info will be displayed during the boot process, and you'll be able to see exactly where it hangs.

[jwspring]

As part of the install, did you mark your network cards eth0 to activate on boot? If so is it connected? Initially mine hung at the same line during boot. It did eventually continue the boot process.

The two questions, activate on boot? and does it eventually continue?

[ggulik]

I exchanged some E-mails with another Vaio FJ user who gave me the following suggestions which at least got me past this. The problem is the original FC4 kernel has an issue with the sound chip and the work-around to get it to boot is to modify the /etc/rc.sysinit script by commenting out the sound start-up:

# 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

I was able to at least boot with this change. I still need to do a full update and see how it reacts to the latest kernel.

[ggulik]

For reference here is the output from lspci on this laptop:

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)
00:1d.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)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
06:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
06:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller
06:09.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7x20 1394a-2000 OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Controller
06:09.3 Unknown mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCI7420/PCI7620 Dual
Socket CardBus and Smart Card Cont. w/ 1394a-2000 OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer
Cont. an
06:0a.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)


I'm doing an update now, it's going to take a while...

With the workaround I posted earlier I am able to use get on-line over wired ethernet only. Wireless doesn't work yet. I never had an Intel based wireless before so I don't know yet how to get that to work. I'm also having trouble getting X to support the native 1280x800 resolution. It's an Intel video card so it shouldn't be this difficult.

[hotdog]

I've got a laptop with the same graphics chipset (Dell Inspiron 6000), and a 1280x800 resolution LCD. In order to get X to work at the native resolution I needed to use the 915resolution tool: http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/

In theory it has to be run at every boot, in a startup script, though oddly enough I don't seem to have to do that. Anyway, it worked for me.

[ggulik]

Ok, the video is taken care of. After doing a yum update and rebooting "it just works".

However, I'm now fighting with the wireless network. It's an ipw2200 adapter and when I modprobe it I get:

ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.0
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2004 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: ipw-2.2-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:06:0a.0 disabled
ipw2200: probe of 0000:06:0a.0 failed with error -5

I think at some point the IRQ it's on stopped being accepted. Ah, here it is from dmesg:

irq 10: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
[<c013af15>] __report_bad_irq+0x24/0x7f
[<c013aff0>] note_interrupt+0x62/0xa6
[<c013aa0d>] __do_IRQ+0xc4/0xd7
[<c010458d>] do_IRQ+0x66/0x82
[<c010306e>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
[<c013a906>] handle_IRQ_event+0x17/0x5a
[<c013a9c1>] __do_IRQ+0x78/0xd7
[<c0104571>] do_IRQ+0x4a/0x82
=======================
[<c010306e>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
[<c0207589>] acpi_processor_idle+0x10e/0x272
[<c01010a6>] cpu_idle+0x34/0x4c
[<c03c270a>] start_kernel+0x15f/0x1b9
[<c03c22e9>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x1b6
handlers:
[<e02ab952>] (yenta_interrupt+0x0/0xaf [yenta_socket])
[<e02b5826>] (ohci_irq_handler+0x0/0x7a9 [ohci1394])
Disabling IRQ #10


I know it says to try "irqpoll" but unfortunately I'm already using "irqpoll" kernel boot parameter.

Suggestions?

[jwspring]

There is a simular issue in this post about firmware.
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...light=firmware

[ggulik]

Thanks, that was pretty easy, just installed the ipw2200-fw-2.2.tgz I downloaded from the ipw2200 site and installed them in /lib/firmware and reloaded the ipw2200 module and it worked!

Now I'm struggling with audio:

00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)

Any suggestions for that one?

[jwspring]

Try entering alsamixer

My system came up with the sound muted. So using alsamixer the display has many different items
mic, aux, 3D, and so on. Curser over to each and hit the "m" key to unmute. You can also set the volume.

[ggulik]

Ah, that helped (mostly). For some reason the label for that sound controller is "Front" and for some reason it was not enabled by default to be controlled by the Volume Applet. I used the text controller and saw it was there. I unmutted it and now I have working audio. The Volume Control Applet for some reason isn't able to adjust the volume so it's always at maximum now unless I open the big controller and adjust the Front slider by itself.

I also need to figure out how to get the Fn keyAnyways to work to make it easier to adjust the volume. The Key Bindings don't seem to see those keystrokes at all.