Re: Knoppix 3.4 on Evo N115 Compaq

Am Freitag, 2. Juli 2004 12:44 schrieb [email protected]:
> Hi there
>
> While the version 3.3 is allmost perfectly running on the laptop Compaq Evo
> N115 (exept the powermanagement  which doesnt show the correct state of the
> battery), I am not able to boot the new version without choosing the
> "failsafe" option. Even then the  handling of the booted OS is quite a
> nightmare. So I wonder what has been changed so far and what makes the
> running of the new Knoppix version so uncomfortable.  Does anyone have an
> idea how to solve the problem? I also tried to switch of several of the
> hardware detection without much success. The boot process stops allways
> after the second message from the boot prompt. If I enter vga=normal it
> comes one step ahead to ....booting kernel. The tux is never visible on the
> screen.

Use "expert" (not knoppix expert, just expert!) and you'll most probably see, 
that the problem is ACPI ...

So try to boot with "knoppix acpi=off" ...

cu

Fabian

PS: That was the most major change we've done from 3.3 to 3.4.