On Monday 27 January 2003 16:52, Andrea Negro wrote:

Alle 15:41, lunedì 27 gennaio 2003, Jerry Feldman ha scritto:

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On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:58:58 +0100

Andrea Negro wrote:

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I tried to install Suse 8.1 on a PB laptop, iGO 3000 model. I could not find a way to install successfully the distro. On the first kernel startup, it hangs on hw autodetection while retriving infos about PCMCIA. I used the manual installation, and it only worked when i manually loaded usb storage modules before booting. The installation process went fine, then it hangs at reboot. Someone had similar problems? Thanks!

Did you try to boot with ACPI=OFF?

Yep... tried both safe settings and just acpi=off param...

Have you tried correcting the 'vga=' parameter in the grub settings to 'vga=791' instead of 'vga=normal'. My packard bell used to hang on reboot with an incorrect parameter message (could only get into it with the suse 8.1 CD). The SuSE database has this as a know bug in the install script in that framebuffer support is set up (the packard Bell iGo 4000 series I have has the sis video chipset which is currently unsupported for the model I have) but the correct parameter is not set in the grub settings. however, I have had no problems at all with the hardware detection of PCMIA, it just doesn't work at all which is no skin off my nose as I don't use pcmia anyway :) I have SuSE 8.1 on the Packard Bell iGo 4450. No 3D graphics (VESA framebuffer only), no power management, no internal modem, no PCMIA... but everything else works... (I'm working on the power management and winmodem, thanks to some clues from this mailing list, just means I might have to learn to compile my first Kernel though...)

Andrea Negro

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----- Original Message ----- From: "Rowan Reid" Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 11:03 PM

Packard Bell ?!?!? I didn't know they still made these things. I would rather shoot myself than install linux on one of those

Don't know about the shooting bit BUT having bought my daughter a PB, I would not recommend anyone buy this brand. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com