Boot delayed when parallel printer driver loads

[lagagnon]

Can't really help you but what happens if you disable the trackpoint in BIOS?

[lunatico]

Hi vbmazter!

Did you ever figured this one out? I'm having the same problem...

[DrHu]

Thinkpad bios
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... AST-3JWKJX
--you don't mention the Thinkpad model #: different versions have different hardware..

Sure, if you think it might be the parallel port or serial port, just disable them in the bios of the notebook..
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=680762
post #3
--yes turn of the splash, so you can see the boot sequence on the screen, gives you a console view of the load/boot; you should be able to see which item is taking the longer times..

You can also, and be careful here, checking the names and descriptions

• Remove applications you don't use
  --Bluetooth, if you have no bluetooth devices
• Some Services
  --you can install rcconf, and alter the startup of various services on boot

[lunatico]

--you don't mention the Thinkpad model #: different versions have different hardware..

Mine it's a T61p (6457-AN9)

Sure, if you think it might be the parallel port or serial port, just disable them in the bios of the notebook..

Did this and it's still hanging...

--yes turn of the splash, so you can see the boot sequence on the screen, or enter ctrl alt F1, while booting for the same result, gives you a console view of the load/boot; you should be able to see which item is taking the longer times..

My dmesg shows:

[ 12.772751] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x81a0b1, caps: 0xa04791/0x300000
[ 12.772756] serio: Synaptics pass-through port at isa0060/serio1/input0
[ 12.815851] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input11
[ 13.998214] synaptics was reset on resume, see synaptics_resume_reset if you have trouble on resume
[ 15.449476] psmouse serio2: ID: 10 00 64<6>IBM TrackPoint firmware: 0x0e, buttons: 3/3
[ 19.157434] input: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/input/input12
[ 189.350305] Adding 1927760k swap on /dev/sda6. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1927760k
[ 189.887903] EXT3 FS on sda5, internal journal
[ 191.082509] type=1505 audit(1248165096.339:2): operation="profile_load" name="/usr/share/gdm/guest-session/Xsession" name2="default" pid=2364

So this means that turning off parallel on the bios did changed something. So what does this mean, is it 19.157434 or 189.350305 giving me trouble?

[DrHu]

My dmesg shows:

your query of your dmesg, something changed..
--first post msg..
[ 19.823500] input: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/input/input10
[ 193.761279]Adding 1518068k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1518068k
--last post msg..
[ 19.157434] input: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/input/input12
[ 189.350305] Adding 1927760k swap on /dev/sda6. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1927760k
very little difference
Well between the boots, the swap drive has moved ??, and increased in size--> a more significant change
And if the trackpad works, nothing to be concerned about, an insignificant change..

That is not as good as watching the data as the system boots to see which is the slowest device to be enabled/activated, whether it is a wireless or network card searching for a connection, or a hard drive that is full and slow to boot, or some device that sticks and is enabled later in the Linux OS boot

You also usually have the option in the bios of letting the bios decide how to active/enable/control the system or using Plug & play mode and letting the Linux OS try to fix any problems uit detects on the system, while devices are started

So this means that turning off parallel on the bios did changed something..
[ 189.350305] Adding 1927760k swap on /dev/sda6. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1927760k

I have no idea what it changed

Adding 1927760k ..
That swap size looks a little large..

Is App Armour initialized in your dmesg display..
http://serverfault.com/questions/3393/w ... s-in-dmesg
dmesg, mine..

• Security Framework initialized
  [ ] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
  [ ] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized
  ...
  AppArmor: AppArmor Filesystem Enabled

[DrHu]

And finally some user experience with the TP61 and Ubuntu 9.04..
http://www.eastwoodzhao.com/ubuntu-904- ... nkpad-t61/
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/04/fi ... jackalope/

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installin ... inkPad_T61

[lunatico]

Adding 1927760k ..
That swap size looks a little large..

No idea what's going on with the swap size and locaion.... sda6 is the right place anyway.... I haven't done any changes.

Is App Armour initialized in your dmesg display..

Yes it is.

[ 0.004000] AppArmor: AppArmor initialized
.....
[ 0.492049] AppArmor: AppArmor Filesystem Enabled