Problems building a new kernel

Sun Sep 26 10:09:50 UTC 2004

Hi,

Whilst trying to make the alps glide pad on my Tosh Sat Pro A10 work in
Ubuntu by updating the kernel I have discovered what I think may be a
bug in the existing kernel build system somewhere.  I thought I should
post here and ask the experts (Herbert Xu?) before creating a new bug
report.

This is the procedure I used to patch and compile my new kernel (all as
root).

apt-get install linux-source-2.6.8.1 kernel-package.
cd /usr/src
tar xvfj linux-source-2.6.8.1.tar.bz2
ln -s linux-2.6.8.1 linux
cd linux
zcat /usr/share/doc/xfree86-driver-synaptics/alps.patch.gz | patch -p1
cp /boot/config-2.6.8.1-2-386 .config
make-kpkg clean ; make-kpkg --append-to-version=alps --initrd kernel_image

... go for a swim ...

dpkg -i ../kernel-image-2.6.8.1alps_10.00.Custom_i386.deb

Upon rebooting I seem to experience 2 problems.  Firstly the console
framebuffer ceases to work.  I have vga=0x318 appended to my boot line,
but I get a blank screen.  Everything still boots fine, and X works
fine.  I noticed this error in my dmesg output:

vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6

I have attached the entire dmesg to this message.

Secondly, when I remove fb mode from boot and inspect the boot messages
I get an error from hald which I don't get when using the stock kernel.

[E] hald.c:199 drop_privileges() : drop_privileges: could not install
capabilities; your kernel lacks capability support, therefore some
features will not be available

I thought perhaps this could be down to the patch that I used so I tried
the above without applying a patch, i.e. rebuilding the stock kernel
from source, I still get the same problems.  Any ideas?

Thanks guys, great job :-)

D.
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Linux version 2.6.8.1alps (root at scutter) (gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-9ubuntu5)) #1 Sat Sep 25 12:08:28 BST 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 00000000000eee00 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000eee00 - 00000000000ef000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000ef000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ef40000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001ef40000 - 000000001ef50000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 000000001ef50000 - 000000001f000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fec10000 - 00000000fec20000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000feda0000 - 00000000fedc0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
495MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 126784
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
  Normal zone: 122688 pages, LIFO batch:16
  HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 TOSHIB                                    ) @ 0x000f0180
ACPI: RSDT (v001 TOSHIB 750      0x00970814 TASM 0x04010000) @ 0x1ef40000
ACPI: FADT (v002 TOSHIB 750      0x00970814 TASM 0x04010000) @ 0x1ef40058
ACPI: DBGP (v001 TOSHIB 750      0x00970814 TASM 0x04010000) @ 0x1ef400dc
ACPI: BOOT (v001 TOSHIB 750      0x00970814 TASM 0x04010000) @ 0x1ef40030
ACPI: DSDT (v001 TOSHIB AFCF7    0x20030326 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xd808
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 ro quiet splash
No local APIC present or hardware disabled
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order 11: 16384 bytes)
Detected 2194.858 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 495308k/507136k available (1324k kernel code, 11040k reserved, 729k data, 204k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 4341.76 BogoMIPS
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps:  bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After all inits, caps:        bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000080
CPU: Intel Mobile Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.20GHz stepping 09
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger.
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (ungzip failed); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 4136k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd317, last bus=3
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs *10)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *11)
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCIB._PRT]
ACPI: Power Resource [PFAN] (off)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00f0410
PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0x9138, dseg 0x0
PnPBIOS: 13 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 13 recorded by driver
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:08.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:0a.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:0b.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Simple Boot Flag at 0x7c set to 0x1
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch at atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
Initializing Cryptographic API
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 54 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.6 (0000 -> 0001)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.6[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0
Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 4136 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... |/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\|/-done.
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed
vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2 C3)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (60 C)
ACPI: Fan [FAN] (off)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ICH4: chipset revision 3
ICH4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xbfa0-0xbfa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xbfa8-0xbfaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: TOSHIBA MK2023GAS, ATA DISK drive
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 39070080 sectors (20003 MB), CHS=38760/16/63, UDMA(100)
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3
hdc: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8082N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding 996020k swap on /dev/hda3.  Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64
alps.c: E7 report: 73 02 0a
alps.c: E6 report: 00 00 64
alps.c: E7 report: 73 02 0a
alps.c: Status: 15 01 0a
ALPS Touchpad (Glidepoint) detected
  Disabling hardware tapping
alps.c: Status: 11 01 0a
input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS TouchPad on isa0060/serio1
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
pnp: Device 00:10 activated.
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, using FIFO [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm at uk.sistina.com
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
cdrom: open failed.
input: PC Speaker
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 855 Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 424M
agpgart: Detected 16252K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd8000000
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 10, io base 0000cfe0
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1d.7 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB2 EHCI Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 11, pci mem df976000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.5 (0000 -> 0003)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49580 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.0.18
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:08.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xcffff000, irq 11, MAC addr 00:08:0D:35:E3:D6
eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw at saw.sw.com.sg> and others
Loaded prism54 driver, version 1.2
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:0a.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Linux Kernel Card Services
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Enabling device 0000:01:0b.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:0b.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:01:0b.0 [1179:0001]
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0038, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000007
eth1: islpci_open()
eth1: resetting device...
eth1: uploading firmware...
eth1: firmware uploaded done, now triggering reset...
nfs warning: mount version older than kernel
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c02c85c0(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
toshiba_acpi: Toshiba Laptop ACPI Extras version 0.18
toshiba_acpi:     HCI method: \_SB_.VALD.GHCI
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x1e0-0x1e7 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
eth1: no IPv6 routers present
[drm] Initialized i830 1.3.2 20021108 on minor 0: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device
[drm] Initialized i830 1.3.2 20021108 on minor 1: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (#2)
mtrr: base(0xd8020000) is not aligned on a size(0x300000) boundary
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