Fedora 8 64 bit DVD upgrade problem

[Martin Marques]

Jim Duda escribió:
> Martin,
> 
> I purchased a Compaq Presario F527US a couple of months ago and 
> installed FC7 on it.  It worked fine for about a month, then things
> went downhill.  The machine started to have problems booting, many
> times the computer would hang, and I had to e2fsck the disk many times
> after it did finally boot.

Problems with the disks, at least it looks like.

> I struggled with Compaq support to convince them that there was a 
> hardware issue.  They didn't want to honor the warranty because I
> installed linux on the computer, they were convince it was a linux 
> issue.  I finally won the battle after I convinced them that windows 
> vista was having issues too.

Yeah. The problem is that all well known laptop sellers don't mind in 
supporting linux, and so when you have a problem, they blame the OS, 
because it's easier.

The thing is that they can't blame the OS that they sold you. ;-)

> Anyways, I was hoping you could share your experience with the Compaq 
> Presario F500.  Is it working okay for you with FC7?

Excellent so far!

The only trouble is with 3D stuff (google earth hangs the laptop, same 
for GL screensavers), but I'm blaming the NVidia driver on that.

> I found I had to use the following kernel boot options to get it to work 
> well:
> 
> irqpoll noapic
> 
> Do you have to use similiar kernel boot optoins?

No, but I check this latter.

> I appreciate any insight you can offer as I hope to get my presario 
> repaired and working with linux again.  I really like the laptop, works 
> great with linux (not so much with vista).

Vista is a hog! I really couldn't believe how slow it was on a brand new 
laptop.