I would like to bring my laptop (a HP ZE4325US) to the installfest for 
help. It uses ACPI, but the inner workings are non-standard enough that 
no distro I have tried (including Mandrake 10.1, the current SUSE and 
the current Knoppix) will install with ACPI enabled. Consequently, 
battery, temperature and power management don't work- the thing runs 
hotter than a two-dollar pistol for about 45 minutes before the battery 
goes dead.

PCMCIA also doesn't work, and I would like to get this beast working for 
wireless internet.

Based on what I have seen on the net, the solution involves starting 
with a vanilla kernel and applying several patches. It is a little 
beyond me at present.

I can burn a copy of a vanilla kernel, plus copies of the ACPI, 
Omnibook, CPUFrequency and PCMCIA patches to CD-ROM for this adventure- 
is there anything else, besides the laptop, which I will need to bring 
to the Installfest?

Lee

Lynn David Newton wrote:

>  Dennis> The InstallFest is always the last Saturday
>  Dennis> of the month, so this month it's the 29th.
>
>Rats. Last I heard the schedule would be on the
>*fourth* Saturday of the month. BTW, the *last*
>Saturday is the 30th, and I won't be able to make it.
>(I'll be a bit busy running a 100-mile race.)
>
>  Dennis> You shouldn't need to bring your monitor. We
>  Dennis> usually have an extra available. If you have
>  Dennis> the specs for yours (resolution that you run
>  Dennis> it at, at least) that will help.
>
>No problem there. I can even supply my XF86Config file.
>
>  Dennis> Fedora Core 2 or Mandrake 10.1 would be good
>  Dennis> choices for a desktop system. ...
>
>Why?
>
>(I don't mean to resurrect the very tired thread about
>which distro is best. Since I'll have a month to figure
>it out, I can make an informed decision myself.)
>
>Maybe rather than trying to answer that question for
>the seven zillionth time, can someone tell me which of
>the many Linux Web sites is best for presenting an
>up-to-date and analytical comparison of the distros
>currently available?
>
>  
>

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Lee Einer
Dos Manos Jewelry
http://www.dosmanosjewelry.com



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