A1200, kernel 2.4.x and bugs

[Marek S. <ma...@st...>]

Hi!

I've posted this message about 2 weeks ago. There was no answer, so I don't
know, if it really reached the ml.

Some time ago I installed Debian Woody on my disk. I alsod upgraded kernel
to 2.4.x (mainly because I need a filesystem with journal - I am tired of
waiting for fsck to check whole disk, and from time to time I loose some
important files).

I tried many kernels and used the same system for all test. Results:

2.2.10 - lacks of any journaling fs, works stable, X works

2.4.13 - lacks of ext3 support, works stable, X doesn't work (monitor enters
"power saving mode" and never gets up, keyboard is blocked, "heard-beat"
works)

2.4.17 - has ext3 support, X works, standard amiga serial port works, kernel
is unstable (from time to time it panics with message "Attempted to kill
interrupt handler!", random networking tasks (inetd, smbd, exim, etc)
spontanously make "kernel oops" or cause the kernel panic)

2.4.18-3 - as above, but serial port does not work (when I open a console on
serial port and type any character system freezes - even no heat-beat), it
is more unstable as 2.4.17, when I removed IDE support it was even more
unstable.

2.4.20 - normally doesn't even boot, panics after detecting a PCMCIA
Ethernet Card (log attached), when I removed that card it boots, but its
also unstable.

I used kernels from linux-apus.sourceforge.net, but there is no difference
when I tried self compiled kernels.

My system:
A1200 with BlizzardPPC+SCSI+BVision, 80MBram, PCMCIA KingMax Ethernet, all
drives are SCSI drives. I don't have any IDE drive. That's why 2.4.x
kernels boots on my system.

How could I help to solve these problems? 

Pozdrawiam/Regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski .. GG:2309080 .. mailto:ma...@am... ..
...... happy AmigaOS, MacOS and Debian/Linux user ........
........... http://march.home.staszic.waw.pl/ ............