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05-10-2008, 02:01 PM
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 Slackware 11.0 on Acer Travelmate 292lmi Hi there, I am currently running Slackware 11.0 on an Acer Travelmate 292lmi, which contains an ATI Radeon 9700 graphics card. The kernel is the standard 2.4 kernel which comes with Slackware 11.0 and I use the KDE windowing system. The problem I have is that the system hangs after a short time, when I use the bareacpi.i kernel. The hang does not occur if I use bare.i but then the battery indicator does not work properly. Has anybody out there encountered this and, if so, how did was the problem solved? Regards Martin Hughes ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **      |
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05-11-2008, 08:40 PM
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| Re: Slackware 11.0 on Acer Travelmate 292lmi On Fri, 09 May 2008 21:20:39 +0100, Martin Hughes wrote: > Hi there, > > I am currently running Slackware 11.0 on an Acer Travelmate 292lmi, > which contains an ATI Radeon 9700 graphics card. The kernel is the > standard 2.4 kernel which comes with Slackware 11.0 and I use the KDE > windowing system. > > The problem I have is that the system hangs after a short time, when I > use the bareacpi.i kernel. The hang does not occur if I use bare.i but > then the battery indicator does not work properly. > > Has anybody out there encountered this and, if so, how did was the > problem solved? > > Regards > Martin Hughes > ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** You may want to give http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/acer.html a try. Also, There are numerous documented issues with acpi and laptops as well as kernel patches (go google). I still have a few older laptops on 11.0 (soon to go 12.1) and kernel 2.4 and needed to load the apm module as well as: append = "acpi=off apm=on" in lilo to keep the fan on (overheating). On one laptop, the network hardware wasn't detected correctly with acpi active. The newer kernels are suppoed to be better so you should try that. Besides, 12.1 has a lot of improvements. -- "In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." --Galileo Galilei |
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05-11-2008, 08:40 PM
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| Re: Slackware 11.0 on Acer Travelmate 292lmi King Beowulf wrote: > On Fri, 09 May 2008 21:20:39 +0100, Martin Hughes wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I am currently running Slackware 11.0 on an Acer Travelmate 292lmi, >> which contains an ATI Radeon 9700 graphics card. The kernel is the >> standard 2.4 kernel which comes with Slackware 11.0 and I use the KDE >> windowing system. >> >> The problem I have is that the system hangs after a short time, when I >> use the bareacpi.i kernel. The hang does not occur if I use bare.i but >> then the battery indicator does not work properly. >> >> Has anybody out there encountered this and, if so, how did was the >> problem solved? >> >> Regards >> Martin Hughes >> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** > > You may want to give http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/acer.html > a try. Also, There are numerous documented issues with acpi and laptops as > well as kernel patches (go google). I still have a few older laptops on 11.0 (soon to go 12.1) > and kernel 2.4 and needed to load the apm module as well as: > > append = "acpi=off apm=on" > > in lilo to keep the fan on (overheating). On one laptop, the network hardware wasn't detected > correctly with acpi active. The newer kernels are suppoed to be better so you should try that. > Besides, 12.1 has a lot of improvements. > Many thanks for your help and or the kernel command line tip. I resorted to using bare.i and loading apm from rc.modules. the battery indicator does not work but I get plenty of warning anyway before the battery is about to die on me. I still use kernel 2.4.x because some won't compile when used with kernel 2.6.x. Regards and Thanks Martin Hughes ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** |
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