Steve Kratz wrote:
I think there may be something up with the install option for ACPI... Possibly due to an ACPI bug in the stock kernel (My own guess-- may end up being wrong... but here goes!)
I installed 9.2 on a Celeron 3.66/192 mb Thinkpad. ACPI has never really worked on it on the past, so I tried using the Disable ACPI install option. It CRAWLED. I cancelled it, installing it with the normal install option (and then when I got far enough to set the GRUB options, I added acpi=off apm=on to the kernel boot options). Then I had to manually install the powersave package.
The MAJOR problem I had with 9.2 is the stock kernel that comes with it has an ACPI bug in it that "effects some old Thinkpads" - After the final reboot, things got VERY unstable. I couldn't even run in INIT 3 without hard-locks. After I installed the updated kernel (laptop kicking and screaming the entire way!) it's working flawlessly now. (I had to boot off a rescue cd, mount my "real" filesystem, chroot to it, THEN install the kernel update.)
Thanks. The new kernel helps a lot, but it's still much slower than it needs to be. Something is still trying to access my dvd a few times a second (even though there is no cd or dvd in the device). I assume some process is probing it to see if I've inserted anything in the last .5 seconds. I'd like to turn that off and see if that helps any. Does anybody know what process might be doing this (suseplugger seems to have gone away in 9.2)? Thanks, Steve