reidar
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Joined: Sep. 2004 |
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Posted: May 22 2006,11:58 |
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Hi
A while ago I used DSL as my main system. I was happy with my frugal install, and everything was great. When I purchased a new (second-hand) laptop, the first thing I did was to "save" the poor machine by erasing XP and replacing it with DSL. Mostly everything worked like it should, except for my laptop fan. To be honest, I didn't recognise this at first, but appreciated the fact that my computer was amazingly silent. I was not so happy about the fact that it became very hot, and when the cpu frequency was getting higher, the system froze. Not entirely, but there was a "lag" in mouse movement and other things, until the cpu reached a more comfortable working mode again. On a couple of occasions the laptop just "died", i.e. shut down. I then realised that something was not working the way it should...
I searched the forums, and experienced that other people also had similar problems, and compaq laptops appeared to be among the most problematic (mine is a compac evo n600c). Someone suggested to disable acpi in the bios. I entered the bios, but I couldn't find any settings that appeared to have anything to do with acpi. (Anyone has a suggestion for what I should look for?) I also tried with several boot options, like noacpi, noapm, acpi=off, acpi, acpi=force, etc. And I tried these in all kinds of combinations (except for noacpi together with acpi/acpi=force, which appeared too stupid to try out). Nothing helped. After a while I simply gave up. Since then I have mainly lived with Ubuntu on this laptop. Everything works with Ubuntu, but the more I use these more full-fledged systems, the more I miss the simplicity, flexibility, speed and power of a system like DSL! So, I kindly ask if some of you could help me get back into the wonderful world of DSL, preferably without burning out my cpu :-)
For the technical stuff, I might add that my laptop is a Compaq Evo N600C, 1Ghz processor, 385 MB RAM, 20GB hdd. Everything works like it should in Ubuntu, Mepis, Slackware, Suse and several other distros I have tried on it. I guess this could be a problem with the kernel, as 2.4.26 does not have complete support for acpi. Someone on the forum suggested, I belive, that using a distro with a 2.6 kernel would do the trick. But maybe some of you has a suggestion for how I could get this working with DSL? Perhaps any ideas on what I should change/look for in the bios settings? Some smart boot options, or combo of boot options that I didn't try?
Any help would be highly appreciated by someone who really would like to get back to DSL :-)
-r
P.S. Sorry that this post was somewhat long, but I thought it would be wise to get all the details from the start.
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