Hello Paul, try pci=noacpi as kernel boot parameter, it works for me on my hp compaq nx8220. If it fails furthermore try acpi=off but you lost many features with that. Interestingly Ubuntu 5.10 runs without any changes.
Mario. Am Dienstag, 1. November 2005 18:11 schrieb Paul Hewlett: > Finally decided to try SuSE 10.0 - got DVD and installed on my server and > did a network install to a test PC (HP Vectra - P3 - 866MHz - 384M RAM). > > Install on this PC was spectacularly successful. Performance is very snappy > and donloading of patches much faster - impressive. > > So I decided to try it on my HP Compaq nx9110 laptop (512M RAM - P4 - 3200 > MHz). The install started OK but when doing the first reboot the PC > apparently died. I rebooted in failsafe mode and continued the installation > in text mode - my monitor was shown as 'unknown'. Rebooted - same story - > black screen - no apparent activity. Booted failsafe mode - works but the > kdm login screen takes a loooong time to come up. Attempted to login but > the screen went completely crazy - lots of lines and scrambled video. > Switched off in hurry. Booted in failsafe mode and edited > boot/grub/menu.lst and changed vga=0x317 to vga=normal for normal boot > option. Rebooted - now I get lots of text as for a normal boot process - > usual stuff - however when I get to ACPI the boot process freezes - the > message is > > ACPI version 20050408 > > I have now reverted to 9.3 (9.2 also ran on this laptop successfully). > > How do I determine the version of 10.0 on the DVD ? > > Any suggestions ? > > Anybody else using a nx9110 ? > > Thanx for any help u can give me ... > > Regards Paul > > -- > Paul Hewlett - CottonPickinMinds - www.cottonpickinminds.co.za > Tel: +27 21 852 8812 Cel: +27 84 420 9282 Fax: +27 86 672 0563 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
