Problem of Fedora Core 2 On Intel SE7505VB2 Dual Xeon

[mounterriver]

I have just installed Fedora Core 2 on my Intel SE7505VB2 machine running dual Xeons.
After the installation, everything goes OK. However, when I first boot the machine, it says
ACPI: S3 and APE does not like each other for now, disabling S3.
Audit(0x...............) ...................
After this, it just hangs there.
If I reboot my machine, the same results. then I pressed the ctrl-alt-del, after several minutes, the machine starts booting, displaying all the boot status......
However, sometimes it stops at enabling swapping space, sometimes it can run into the graphical mode and start the first run program. even I can get there, my keyboard is lost. i.e. I do not have the keyboard. It seems my keyboard data goes to the mouse. when I pressed the keyboard, the mouse cursor moves...... and sometimes i get message like
pcmouse.c error, .....discarding extra byte.....
Anyone knows where problably the problem is or has similar experiences?

[Kodjo Agbenu]

Hi,

Try booting with ACPI disabled. At your boot prompt (grub), type "e", then on the kernel parameters line type "e" again, then append " acpi=off" at the end of the line, then type "b" to boot.

If it works without ACPI, edit /etc/grub.conf, go to your default kernel boot parameters and append " acpi=off".

Good luck.

Kodjo

[mounterriver]

Thanks to kodjo Agbenu...
I have upgraded my kernel to 2.6.7, now it seems booting properly. However, I still do not have the keyboard. When I type the key, the mouse cursor moves. I think the mouse and keyboard are using the same port. I can use a usb keyboard instead......