Toshiba SP 4600 freeze on ACPI detection

Forum: Laptops
Topic: Toshiba SP 4600 freeze on ACPI detection
started by: Islander

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Posted by Islander on Sep. 06 2004,18:21

This posting just to help others who may encounter the same problems.

I have tried DSL on a desktop machine, and on my laptop, a Toshiba Satellite pro.  I had expected video problems, so I selected fb1024x768 at the boot prompt.  That worked well, but then the startup sequence froze after a minute or two at the point where the ACPI stuff was checked (things like the poer off button, etc).  I tried again, but there didn't seem to be a boot prompt to avoid acpi.  I looked back at some earlier posts on this forum (and there are many useful posts, thanks to all who take the time) and someone mentioned using 'acpi=off'.  I wasn't sure, because that isn't listed on the 0.8 boot screen.

Anyway, it worked.  To start DSL on my laptop, I choose:

[Boot:] fb1024x768 acpi=off

and DSL runs perfectly.

By the way, anyone know if the T4600 inbuilt modem is supported?  I guess not if it's a softmodem thingy.

regards, and thanks to the folk who post, but, of course, thanks to those who conceived and implemented DSL so well.  It's very impressive.  Very.

Islander

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Posted by martinez on Sep. 12 2004,18:33

acpi=force  

anti frezz acpi  

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