[wellylug] Locking up on boot "Loading manual drivers"]

[Ian Beardslee]

mutter mutter ok, let's try the correct account this time :-)

> On Sat, 2006-05-27 at 13:02 +1200, Ian Beardslee wrote:
> > Hi peoples,
> > 
> > I have a wee issue with the PC locking up when it boots Ubuntu 6.06
> beta
> > (same issue with 5.10).
> > 
> > It seems to stop and sit while 'Loading manual drivers'.  Hitting
> the
> > reset button and getting the machine to reboot and it starts up all
> OK.
> 

Well I think I now have that sorted - at least it didn't happen when I
booted up today.

After some hunting for why Skype was spitting the dummy, I discovered
some references to point to the Realmagic Hollywood+ in my PC.  It uses
an EM8300 module which seems spits the dummy with ALSA and OSS - dunno
why it wasn't happening in ubuntu 5.10 ?!?

So by putting the EM8300 in the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-oss file, it
seems to have fixed - at least the PC booted without me resetting to
tonight .. I suppose I should see if it continues to behave.

I thought it may have been what was causing the problem with Skype, but
sadly no.  Jethro's wee patch sorted that.