[oclug] linux on laptop (and an intro)

[Brad Barnett]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 20:46:54 -0400
MIKE MacMartin <mike at igs.net> wrote:

> first an intro to myself: I'm Mike MacMartin.  Just graduated from West 
> Carleton and going into CS at Carleton U this september.  I've been
> using linux only since the end of last summer (2001) - since RH7.1.  I
> have a desktop machine which is now being allocated to a fileserver
> since I got a laptop.
> 
> Now, my problem:
> I am attempting to set up Red Hat 7.3 on my father's new laptop (his
> choice, actually, but only for testing for work).  It is some kind of
> Eurocom laptop.  Now, here's the funny bit... it comes time to (I
> believe) insert disc #2 for the install, but the eject command from
> anaconda arrives before the end of the read of the last package, and the
> install dies.  Has anyone else seen this before?  Did I diagnose it
> right?  (I have an anacondump if anyone wants to look at it.)
> 
> 2nd:
> My laptop (also a eurocom) has 2 problems with linux:
> 1) if I go to a virtual terminal, then back to X, X will freeze.
> 2) attempting to compile 2.5.29 - I think I'm missing something because
> once I compile and reboot, my machine the screen blanks.  I don't know
> why. 
> 3) I have a (semi-)working compile of 2.5.29 but if I attempt to
> use openGL (esp. with SDL as in 'ut'), it will freeze.
> Anyone have any Ideas?

Yes.  Stop using an extremely unstable beta kernel and return to the 2.4
stable branch.

> 
> MIKE