SuSE8.1/compaq/graphics problem
Hello list, I'm starting a local Linux Group here and we have the opportunity of using a computer class for our Linux learning. At the moment most of the teaching comes from me. The computers in the class are causing numerous problems. Being Compaq machines they have some weird ACPI BIOS incompatibility which can be solved with boot parameter (we put acpi=off there). Worse yet, the graphical display seems to fail after a short while with (at least almost) all of the computers. I can provide details of the hardware a bit later but perhaps somebody out there recognizes this: 1) login to KDE or twm (probably others too) 2) launch konqueror and try to enter an URL to go => screen is filled with narrow vertical stripes, different colors and nothing sensible is showing neither mouse nor keyboard seem to answer/get control of it (including CTRL-ALT-F1 and CTRL-ALT-DEL) (it will fail without konqueror too, it seems) 3) reboot (disk probably gets fixed) and it seems to be ok again. Graphic chip is intel8xx something and based on the same behaviour happening on both KDE and twm I would guess this is not KDE problem but XFree86/driver or similar problem. I might get the hardware details and they are likely to help. All these computers are CompaQ, some not-too-new model, 64MB or 128MB ram, CD-ROM, network card and harddisk - nothing more special I/O. Most of the machines are same hardware and most of them did this yesterday - not all of the students tried X but I'd guess that all that tried faced the problem. does this ring a bell? These systems run NT4 normally (from different harddisk) so they should be working quite OK on the hardware side. I'll find out the hardware and XFree86 log information ASAP if this does not get solved faster. regards, timo
Am Freitag, 11. April 2003 11:09 schrieb timo raty:
Hello list,
I'm starting a local Linux Group here and we have the opportunity of using a computer class for our Linux learning. At the moment most of the teaching comes from me.
The computers in the class are causing numerous problems. Being Compaq machines they have some weird ACPI BIOS incompatibility which can be solved with boot parameter (we put acpi=off there). Worse yet, the graphical display seems to fail after a short while with (at least almost) all of the computers.
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These systems run NT4 normally (from different harddisk) so they should be working quite OK on the hardware side.
I'll find out the hardware and XFree86 log information ASAP if this does not get solved faster.
regards, timo
Hello Timo. I use also a Compaq-Laptop, its newer but i know the problems. The ACPI-Problem is a Hardware- or BIOS-Problem. You can just set ACPI=OFF and use APM with APM=ON I've upgraded my SuSE 8.1 to SuSE 8.2, thats solved all my problems with the graphic. I would mean, you should also change to 8.2 Just the ACPI-problem is still exists, but thats is a Compaq-problem, not a SuSE-problem. Hth, TI
Hi, Am Freitag, 11. April 2003 19:56 schrieb Tokei Ihto:
Am Freitag, 11. April 2003 11:09 schrieb timo raty:
Hello list,
I'm starting a local Linux Group here and we have the opportunity of using a computer class for our Linux learning. At the moment most of the teaching comes from me.
The computers in the class are causing numerous problems. Being Compaq machines they have some weird ACPI BIOS incompatibility which can be solved with boot parameter (we put acpi=off there). Worse yet, the graphical display seems to fail after a short while with (at least almost) all of the computers.
[ ... more description ... ]
These systems run NT4 normally (from different harddisk) so they should be working quite OK on the hardware side.
I'll find out the hardware and XFree86 log information ASAP if this does not get solved faster.
regards, timo
Hello Timo.
I use also a Compaq-Laptop, its newer but i know the problems. The ACPI-Problem is a Hardware- or BIOS-Problem. You can just set ACPI=OFF and use APM with APM=ON
I've upgraded my SuSE 8.1 to SuSE 8.2, thats solved all my problems with the graphic. I would mean, you should also change to 8.2 Just the ACPI-problem is still exists, but thats is a Compaq-problem, not a SuSE-problem.
I have an Evo n800v, also problems with acpi. Marc Grimme found a solution for it (at least on n800v), but it's to advanced for me, so I didn't try it: http://website.atix.de/dt/notebook/linux-compaq-evo-N800v.htm Jean-Marc
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Jean-Marc Autexier
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timo raty
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Tokei Ihto