Linux version 2.4.22-std-up-alt12 (builder@mash.office.altlinux.ru) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (ALT Linux, build 2.96-alt5)) #1 Sat Nov 29 21:48:54 MSK 2003 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e9800 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007ff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000007ff0000 - 0000000007fffc00 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 0000000007fffc00 - 0000000008000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe9800 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) user-defined physical RAM map: user: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) user: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) user: 00000000000e9800 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) user: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007ff0000 (usable) user: 0000000007ff0000 - 0000000007fffc00 (ACPI data) user: 0000000007fffc00 - 0000000008000000 (ACPI NVS) user: 00000000fffe9800 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 127MB LOWMEM available. ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000 On node 0 totalpages: 32752 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 28656 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. DMI 2.1 present. 19 structures occupying 594 bytes. DMI table at 0x000F0830. BIOS Vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD BIOS Version: V1.0 R01-D7 BIOS Release: 10/29/99 System Vendor: Acer Product Name: TravelMate 720 Version: Serial Number: 9142C0180V944002A8M Board Vendor: ACER Board Name: TravelMate 720 Board Version: ACPI disabled because your bios is from 99 and too old You can enable it with acpi=force Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=306 mem=128M acpi_irq_nobalance ACPI STATIC SET Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. Could not enable APIC! Initializing CPU#0 Detected 399.067 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 796.26 BogoMIPS Memory: 126820k/131008k available (1192k kernel code, 3800k reserved, 501k data, 132k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 256K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After generic, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel Mobile Pentium II stepping 0a Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel ACPI: Subsystem revision 20031002 ACPI: Interpreter disabled. PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9b4, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:04.0 Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1 vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf6000000, mapped to 0xc8800000, size 2496k vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=0 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:a670 vesafb: scrolling: redraw vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 Looking for splash picture.... found (1024x768, 22471 bytes, v2). Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 106x34 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:04.1 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcd0-0xfcd7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcd8-0xfcdf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: IBM-DCXA-210000, ATA DISK drive blk: queue c02f6880, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdc: UJDA520, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: host protected area => 1 hda: 19640880 sectors (10056 MB) w/420KiB Cache, CHS=1222/255/63, UDMA(33) Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 > md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Freeing initrd memory: 121k freed VFS: Mounted root (romfs filesystem) readonly. Journalled Block Device driver loaded kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. Trying to move old root to /initrd ... failed Unmounting old root Trying to free ramdisk memory ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed Executing init=/sbin/init Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e Adding Swap: 313232k swap-space (priority -1) EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,6), internal journal Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 94M agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000 NTFS driver 2.1.4b [Flags: R/O MODULE]. NTFS-fs warning (device 03:01): parse_options(): Option iocharset is deprecated. Please use option nls= in the future. NTFS volume version 3.1. MSDOS FS: IO charset cp1251 MSDOS FS: Using codepage 866 Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22 options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:06.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:06.1 PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:06.1 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:06.0 Yenta IRQ list 0498, PCI irq11 Socket status: 30000020 Yenta IRQ list 0498, PCI irq11 Socket status: 30000006 cs: cb_alloc(bus 2): vendor 0x10b7, device 0x5157 PCI: Enabling device 02:00.0 (0000 -> 0003) cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x220-0x22f 0x330-0x337 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean. 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt 02:00.0: 3Com PCI 3CCFE575BT Cyclone CardBus at 0x4000. Vers LK1.1.18-ac PCI: Setting latency timer of device 02:00.0 to 64 00:50:04:94:ac:c0, IRQ 11 product code 5457 rev 07.1 date 08-20-99 02:00.0: CardBus functions mapped 10800080->c8b59080 Internal config register is 600000, transceivers 0x40. 8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, MII interface. phy=0, phyx=24, mii_status=0xffff phy=1, phyx=0, mii_status=0x7809 MII transceiver found at address 0, status 7809. Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. 02:00.0: scatter/gather enabled. h/w checksums enabled divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 NeoMagic 256AV/256ZX audio driver, version 1.1p PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 01:00.1 PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 01:00.0 NM256: This doesn't look to me like the AC97-compatible version. You can force the driver to load by passing in the module parameter: force_load = 1 More likely, you should be using the appropriate SB-16 or CS4232 driver instead. (If your BIOS has settings for IRQ and/or DMA for the sound card, this is *not* the correct driver to use.)