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 
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