From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1ElUCb-0005Gu-Cv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 16:37:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBBGaFMe010781; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 16:36:15 GMT Received: from mach.qrypto.org (connectioncable-084.headoff.net [217.30.222.84] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBBGWMrw019430 for ; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 16:32:22 GMT Received: (qmail 9969 invoked by uid 1000); 11 Dec 2005 18:31:48 -0000 Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:31:48 +0000 From: Rumen Yotov To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop Install Issue Message-ID: <20051211183148.GA9959@mach.qrypto.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <439C0285.6090408@interlynx.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6TrnltStXW4iwmi0" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <439C0285.6090408@interlynx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 2ba62c58-fa4f-4bca-a282-c201dbdc8593 X-Archives-Hash: 79b2324a5db81629f1de2a973956295c --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On (11/12/05 10:42), C. Beamer wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > I've become so enamoured with Gentoo that I've decided to install on my > laptop. However, I'm having a bit of a problem. >=20 > I'm at the point where I can boot the system and I've been trying to > install xorg-x11. However, the laptop keeps powering off on me. >=20 > This wasn't a problem until I build the kernel where I built acpi > support into it. However, I *didn't* read the ACPI Guide and obviously, > should have. That's no big problem, I'll just recompile the kernel and > follow what the Guide says. >=20 > My issue is this: The computer powered off in the middle of the install > of xorg-x11. This has happened a couple of times. I haven't been > having problems with the laptop, so I'm pretty sure the issue has > something to do with power management since I built power management > into the kernel, but didn't emerge acpid. Anyway, since the emerge of > xorg-x11 has bombed a couple of times, is there anything that I should > do in the way of clean up before trying to emerge it again? >=20 > Regards, >=20 > Colleen > --=20 > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >=20 Hi, No experience with laptops, but here's some suggestions. Check on Google about your laptop's brand,model etc. Reboot with kernel parameter "acpi=3Doff" or other, check install docs/CD. Give here some info about it, very likely someone will have similar. HTH.Rumen --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDnHCUrl3/ZeMaaZMRAjBNAKCRJ0IgIMZxiko3xpYm7ISQNDM6ngCeMnDE IEwkKWzKdV2Z35mqf55J1UY= =3PBD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6TrnltStXW4iwmi0-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list