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I've been struggling for a few days with getting the new Linux 2.0.0 kernel running on my Thinkpad 701CS, and i'm wondering whether anyone can shed some light on the problem i'm hitting. I recently upgraded an old-ish slackware installation with Redhat 3.0.3 and the 1.2.13 kernel. The install went very smoothly, and i had gotten most of my customary environment working (PCMCIA ethernet card, etc), except that i was unable to successfully incorporate the advance power management mechanism (Stephen Rothwell's apm_bios 0.5) which i had been using in the previous installation. Then the 2.0.0 kernel comes out, with the APM already integrated, much more module support, more console fonts, etc. Very appealing, since i was already finagling with a new installation, to just go with the latest and greatest. Unfortunately, not so easy. I've installed the required redhat RPMs for the 2.0 upgrade, and tried both the contributed pre-compiled kernel (and modules), as well as building my own, and i'm consistently getting the same problem - i can boot the 2.0.0 kernel, very nicely, and log in, type for a few seconds to a minute, but inevitably the system stops responding to the keyboard. The OS and display continues - if i'm running 'top', the screen updates continue, and a shutdown that i start before the keyboard locks proceeds fine, but no keystrokes are recognized. What's odd is that, once the keyboard is locked out, *no* keystrokes are recognized - not only are regular keystrokes ignored, as is ctrl-alt-delete, but the special Thinkpad BIOS keystrokes - configuration (Fn-F1), screen toggle Fn-F3, volume Fn-PgUp Fn-PgDn - also have no effect! I've recompiled the kernel tens of times during the past several days, and tried the most minimal kernel and daemon contingent i could manage, the most "vanilla" arrangment i could imagine, booting to run level 1 instead of 2 or 3, etc, and nothing seems to make the slightest bit of difference. (The biggest change i got was when i found and installed the redhat K2.0 package upgrades - that extended the time before the keyboard freeze from a few seconds/keystrokes to typically anywhere from a half-minute or minute.) I have a sneaking suspicion that the Thinkpad BIOS revision i'm running has some complicity in the problem - i've heard bad things about this latest rev (rev O - BUTUS3o, more specifically), which was installed on my thinkpad when it was recently in for easyserve repair. Anyway, i've had no such problems running the 1.2.13 kernel i had just installed (though i'm unable to fold in APM). I'd like to do the upgrade, and am wondering what i can do to unravel this problem. Any suggestions?? Additionally, does anyone have the older 701 BIOS images available? I checked the IBM repository, and they seem to only offer the most recent one, which was installed "for" me. Thanks for any help! Ken Manheimer klm@cnri.reston.va.us 703 620-8990 x268 (orporation for National Research |nitiatives 1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100 Reston, VA 22091