Hi all,

I have recently upgraded from kernel-2.6.35-5-i686.fpm (which is a 2.6.35.7 
speaking upstream's terms) to kernel-2.6.36-1-i686.fpm (which is a 2.6.36) on 
my ASUS K50IJ laptop running Frugalware Linux -current, and it failed to boot 
when I used the usual command line:

kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro quiet resume=/dev/sda5

"Failed to boot" means that the thing does not even output even a single 
character after "[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3000, size=0x3c5380]" but hangs - 
even C-A-Del does not do anything (I do have waited for half an hour). 
Pressing the power button (it does not matter for how long) turns the laptop 
off immediately.

When I used the most-safest-without-any-magic cmdline that our kernel package 
maintainer supposed, it did boot, but failed to start X:

kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro showopts ide=nodma apm=off \
acpi=off vga=normal noresume selinux=0 barrier=off nosmp noapic maxcpus=0

Obviously, this means I had two options: change my way of working (suspending 
to ram all the time, reboot only upon kernel and low-level stuff upgrades) or 
going back to 2.6.35(.7). I took the latter, but I do know I cannot stay 
behind for too much time, so I was supposed to bisect this for myself.

Reproducing steps:

Upgrade to 2.6.36 (or anything newer) and reboot. Given the laptop freezes 
immediately, I cannot really attach logs.

Attached are:

1. the "git bisect log" output - I had to "git bisect skip" several times, 
probably because of staging drivers being enabled;

2. the last "git bisect bad" output;

3. the kernel config I was using all the time;

4. output of "dmesg" while using v2.6.35-rc6-238-g9373662 (which was the last 
"good" kernel while bisecting);

5. output of "dmidecode".

Additional info:

The first "bad" build while bisecting caused the above-mentioned freeze, but 
the latest 4 were all panicking immediately after boot - here is the 
"screenshot" I created with my camera:

http://frugalware.org/~boobaa/shots/DSCF1349.JPG

Feel free to ask for more info if needed and thanks for your help.
-- 
Bye, Boobaa (CSÉCSY László)
http://csecsy.hu