[oclug] Linux flavours

[Andrew Ross]

Howard,

Sorry, I'm not currently running openSuse myself thus I'd have to google it
myself which negates any unique value I can offer. Perhaps someone else
knows off the cuff, otherwise I'm sure you'll find it quickly.

Andrew

2009/12/7 Howard Krakower <hk at zed.net>

> Thanks.
>
> Do you know whether this fix will work where grub loads openSUSe 11.2?
> I can easily logon, but to shutdown, I have to go into the console
> mode and type "shutdown now -h" to get a complete shutdown.
>
> Howard
>
> Monday, December 7, 2009, 10:47:20 AM, Andrew Ross wrote:
>
> > Hi Howard,
>
> > I had the same issue with one of my Dell machines. I suspect adding
> > i8042.reset to your boot options will fix your keyboard issues when not
> on
> > A/C power.
>
> > e.g. if you're using grub on Ubuntu as a bootloader
>
> > edit /boot/grub/menu.lst
>
> > And change the line that looks like this:
> > # kopt=root=UUID=c10a4641-f9b2-8b06-7127-bb1ba1fe45d4 ro
>
> > To be this
> > # kopt=root=UUID=c10a4641-f9b2-8b06-7127-bb1ba1fe45d4 ro i8042.reset
>
> > Save, then run "update-grub" as root.
>
> > Then reboot. In theory, it *should* go away.
>
> > Andrew
>
> > 2009/11/10 Howard Krakower <hk at zed.net>
>
> >> There *has* to ba a flavour that actually works with the Dell D600
> >> notebook, but I can't find it.
> >>
> >> Last year I installed Ubuntu (Hardy Heron) and it ran OK. Then the
> >> upgrades came out - Ibex and Jackalope - with Ibex getting somewhat
> >> flakey and Jackalope totally freezing the system. So I tried Fedora,
> >> but it wouldn't even load the install CD.
> >>
> >> To check to see if this was a hardware issue (after all the D600 is
> >> about 5 years old), I reinstalled Windoze. The system worked fine, so
> >> I knew that the issue was not hardware.
> >>
> >> So I installed openSUSE 11.1. Initially it ran well, but after doing
> >> an update the logon screen wouldn't accept input from the keyboard (as
> >> in typing in the password) if the system was running on battery; it
> >> worked only if the system was plugged into 110 volts.
> >>
> >> Because of the ease of getting the wireless network to work (Ubuntu
> >> was horror story) I opted to totally reinstall openSUSE 11.1 -
> >> everything worked just fine both on battery power and AC. Then there
> >> were a number of security updates, which I installed and the system has
> >> reverted to only allowing a logon when on AC power. The other downside
> >> is that getting the multimedia player to play .wmv .avi and .flv
> >> formats still hasn't been solved (these all worked fine in Ubuntu).
> >>
> >> Does anyone know of a flavour of linux that will work with a Dell D600
> >> notebook (uses a Broadcom BCM4318 wireless NIC)?
> >>
> >> Howard
> >>
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Andrew