On Wednesday 01 October 2008 11:49:03 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
> I regret to report that this is an abysmal failure on my Acer Travelmate
> laptop.
>
> The display booted and looked fine. Hovering over the widget for battery
> status/cpu frequency popped up a display. A right-click on the panel
> brought nothing. A click on the F menu brought nothing. I moved back to
> the widget that had first worked, and at that point the mouse pointer
> froze. Ctrl-alt-backspace does nothing, so I suspect that the keyboard is
> not being read either.
>
> Hardware
> Pentium M730 cpu
> ATi Mobility Radeon X600
>
> didn't get as far as testing network.
>
> Anne
Try booting it with the kernel parameter nomodeset.
Yes, that seems to have cured it. What exactly is that doing?
During the boot message the only thing I saw which may explain what was going
on was
ACPI:EC:GPI Storm detected, disabling EC GPE
My wifi connection accepted configuring (WPA+PSK) and works.
Sound was disabled, but appeared to accept enabling. Just one mixer channel
was shown. Attempting to play a sound om Dragon Player resulted in
KDE-Im-Connection-Lost - and silence.
Fonts in dolphin are very "dotty"
Anything else you'd like to to try?
Anne
Any