Attached is the raw dmesg output from the first boot.

• dmesg_26issues: First 2.6 boot dmesg output

See especially the section starting with PnPBIOS and also there may be issues with sound, although it seems to work ok so maybe that's a non-issue.

gpm doesn't start at boot - but it will start by hand. This breaks the mouse in X11. sigh, I hate mice.

williams.cscf refused to boot the 2.6 kernel. After much investigation by MikePatterson and SevernTsui (with input from LawrenceFolland), it turns out that the problem is a USB 2.0 7 in 1 card reader combined with newer BIOS releases on an Asus P4P800VM motherboard and a 2.6 kernel.

Current workarounds:

• disable USB 2.0 in the BIOS
• unplug the card reader
• ??? perhaps 2.6.8 will fix this
• ??? perhaps Asus has some fix (but the beta BIOS release 06/08/2004 didn't fix it)

Notes: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/03/msg14218.html describes issues with ACPI and USB in Debian.

I tried building my own kernel to rectify this.

First: williams:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.7# cp /boot/config-2.6.7-1-686-smp ./.config

then make oldconfig Then configure the kernel Old CPU default (despite -i686-smp) was PPro. So let's change that to P4. Support ACPI, but not APM. Let's not bother with PCMCMCMCMCIA support. Disable OHCI; lspci tells us our USB controller is UHCI and Claus Spitzer tells me that OHCI causes issues for him.

So, with config done: make-kpkg --append-to-version -uw-cscf --revision mpatters.0 binary modules_image

And let's see what happens... well, we got some debs, so install in following order:

williams:/usr/src# dpkg -i kernel-headers-2.6.7-uw-cscf_mpatters.0_i386.deb
williams:/usr/src# dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.7-uw-cscf_mpatters.0_i386.deb

That didn't work out so well; it panicked trying to mount root. But I checked and ext2 and 3 support are enabled, and the GRUB rules are the same.