On Wednesday 02 November 2005 09:53, Mario Goppold wrote: > 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.
Thanx Mario I know about the acpi features and will try them on the weekend. Why does it work with 9.2 and 9.3 and not with 10.0 ? Paul > > 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] -- 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]
