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.
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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.
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