On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 14:11, Sascha Noyes wrote: > I have recently successfully installed cooker on my Presario 732US, and made a > webpage detailing this at: > http://individual.utoronto.ca/noyes/projects/laptop/tuxtop.html > > It is still under heavy development, but it should be very usefull to you. I'll have a boo, thanks! > I got the same error message (holy crap - you counted how many dots there > were! ;-) ). First, try booting with acpi=off. This worked for me, but I just counted the last 23 (80 char display, gave me the first part ;) ) > obviously acpi did not work, and hence fan & processor where at 100% all the > time. I had to recompile the kernel, and here is the important part: It seems > the Presario 700 series has a faulty implementation of acpi, and therefore Why is it every laptop I seem to purchase has APM/ACPI problems/defects that prevent it from working good with Linux? I had a similar problem with my old Dell Inspiron 7000 and APM. > you have to disable APIC (no, I didn't spell that wrong!). Just check out the > web-page and be sure to report any additional issues you have. Thanks again Sascha. -- ...Rob -- Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. ===================================================================== Robert Goshko Axis Computer Consulting Services, Inc President Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada http://www.axis-dev.ca/ Supporting the Revolution In Your World ===================================================================== Registered Linux User #260513 GNU/Linux i686 2.4.20-2mdk 2:43pm up 8 min, 4 users, load average: 0.10, 0.43, 0.23
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