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| Thread ID: 77038 | 2007-02-25 01:31:00 | A MEPIS problem | Sherman (9181) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 527834 | 2007-02-25 09:07:00 | It ba a er compaq. Got it in september of last year. In other words, fairly new. Will try disabling ACPI now. |
Sherman (9181) | ||
| 527835 | 2007-02-25 09:15:00 | yep Compaq, mepis doesnt like my Compaq lappy as well, gives a warning on bootup about BIOS fault (recoverable it says ) and I have to use one of the custom boot modes, but the funny thing is RED HAT 9 which dual boots with xp doesnt care, on the same lappy. different kernel versions and base distros mepis is debain based which has always been fussy in my experance |
beama (111) | ||
| 527836 | 2007-02-25 09:25:00 | It was an ACPI problem. Unfortuanately, I cant turn it off at the bios, however, there was a startup mode for MEPIS that doesnt start ACPI stuff. I , er, um, didn't try loading that option before, as it is for older PC. And because it is for older PC's, it only uses a basic graphics mode meaning the screen res is stuck on 800 x 600 or 1024 x 786, which looks awful on my widescreen laptop... Um, by the way, how am I managing to be posting here?? I didn't enter any username, passwords, dsl setting at all, yet here I am posting on PF1.:confused: |
Sherman (9181) | ||
| 527837 | 2007-02-25 09:32:00 | Re posting. PF1 Cookies, did you tick the option to remember you at the right of the PF1 login box? Well done on narrowing down the problem. There is bound to be a work-a-round, search or post on the Mepis forums. While you're at it complain to Compaq, it doesn't hurt for them to know that there custimers would like to use Linux as well as Windows. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 527838 | 2007-02-25 09:33:00 | Duh What a silly question to ask... The setting of course are all in the router... By the way, thanks for the help. I didn't think of ACPI to be honest. I only seem to have the problem with liveCD's, not with somthing like fedora core or suse (or similar) |
Sherman (9181) | ||
| 527839 | 2007-02-25 09:35:00 | because its a live distro, it detects dhcp sets it your network card (known as eth0 in linux) and logs in you wont damage the linux operating system because it runs from RAM referring back to the live cd if it needs anything but be carefull want you do, you can kill your laptop main os Which Im guessing is xp Be carefull when doing ANYTHING that involves hda (thats want Linux calls your c:\) |
beama (111) | ||
| 527840 | 2007-02-25 09:37:00 | Ah, so you're posting from Mepis.... It'll just detect your setting and yes, your router will do the rest, no fidling around in My Network Places or some such, although you can change the configuration if you wish. Linux is good like that, it usually does networking very well, no pissing around just gets on with it :D Again, well done. Edit: If it's the Live CD that's the issue, try installing Mepis, it's dead easy, just click the icon on the desktop. Most times I've encountered issue like your (Ubuntu, an older version of Mepis), once I've intalled it's worked fine. So, could be something in what you say about how Live CDs work. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 527841 | 2007-02-25 09:38:00 | Re posting. PF1 Cookies, did you tick the option to remember you at the right of the PF1 login box? Murray...live distro (cant write to cd) unless you use puppy of course yes live distro are good ive used one to transfer xserver settings from then to a hard drive install |
beama (111) | ||
| 527842 | 2007-02-25 09:44:00 | Murray...live distro (cant write to cd) unless you use puppy of course I wrote that before I realised Sherman was posting from Mepis, thank you very much Mr know it all :p That's very interesting about Puppy though, I didn't know that :rolleyes: . Might give it a spin. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 527843 | 2007-02-25 09:51:00 | puppy can write back to cd or write to the pc hardrive a small or large config file in which your custom settings are saved to for next time | beama (111) | ||
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