F10 beta KDE LiveCD

[Anne Wilson]

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

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