IBM Thinkpad T20, 700MHz selinux disabled, rhgb disabled
On some kernels, X11 would fail to start some of the time. rhgb would run but when gdm started, sometimes I would not get a login screen, could not ping machine. If I did get to gdm login screen, its rock solid stable after that.
Disabled rhgb - still was a problem sometimes, so rhgb was not at fault - but I left it disabled anyway. It is NOT a problem with knoppix, so its not a hardware issue.
Virtual consoles also do not work in runlevel 5 (haven't tried others)
kernel 2.6.11-1.1284_FC4 seemed better - virtual consoles still didn't work, but I seemed to have no problems booting to runlevel 5. If it still was a problem in that kernel, I just have been lucky.
kernel 2.6.11-1.1287_FC4 - have not had a successful boot to runlevel 5 - happens every time I try, switching to 1284 in grub and it boots into runlevel 5 just fine.
[mpeters@laptop ~]$ /sbin/lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) 00:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03) 00:02.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03) 00:03.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems (former Lucent Microelectronics) WinModem 56k (rev 01) 00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01) 00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev 11) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
I do boot with acpi=force - I don't know if that's an issue or not. Interestingly, w/o acpi=force, when docked if xscreensaver comes on, I can't move external mouse to get the xscreensaver password box - acpi=force and I can. But that's the least of my worries, only mentioned in case it's an acpi issue I'm seeing.
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Michael A. Peters