Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 02:58, Ryan, Brandon Ray wrote:FWIW, something very similar to this happened on my PII 233 laptop (a Mitac 6031) as well.
THANKS MATT!!!!
I'm forever in your debt (well lets just say until the arbitrarily chosen date of next Tuesday)...
"linux apm=off" did the trick. I had no idea what was wrong, and I have found other posts online of other people with the same problem who did not get an answer. I guess it was power management all along. I tried to disable it in the BIOS, but that wasn't enough. Linux had to give it up too.
It seems I remember the latest version of Mandrake (gasp!; forgive me for mentioning this on a RedHat list) wouldn't boot either with the same problem; however Redhat 7.3 was fine. Seems they used an older kernel than Mandrake.
Anyway, I have an AMD Athlon 1Ghz on a Kadoka motherboard all assembled by the fine folks at Gateway 2 years ago. Now my machine has RedHat 8 and I am happy as a mouse in a room full of cheese.
Funky. RHL 8.0 is the first that tries to use APM idle, because it usually saves a LOT of battery life and according to the Mandrake developer I discussed it with, it didn't break in practice ;(
PDG
