[NTLUG:Discuss] Acer Extensa 501T Laptop

[R. Jay Campbell]

"Carter B. Bennett" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I have an Acer Extensa 501T Laptop with Intel 266MMX, TFT 12.1, 3.5GB HD,
> 64MB RAM and I want to install Linux on it. Just before X-Mas I went
> through the RH 6.0 install and everything was as normal as can be, but,
> after the install booting the laptop on it's own it choked with what looked
> like HEX addresses across the screen. The install was so textbook no
> problems at all. I looked at the manual last night and the BIOS has an OS
> setting. Why is that and what should it be set to "Win95/98 or Win NT"
> those seem to be the only options.
> 
> When I reinstalled windogs everything went great (I thought the laptop had
> broke). What should be my next move, I really would like this to be a
> portable Linux box, I realize I will loose the 56K Win Modem.
> 
> Any help would be great.

The following is from one of the Linux on Laptops hardware pages 
(http://sow194.sow.Fh-Osnabrueck.DE/~97et0126/acer/index.php3):

FAQ : After installation the system hangs while booting

When you start your linux system, it hangs with the output off some
registers and numbers. This can
happen when you have installed the Red Hat distribution. The
distribution installs a kernel with
Advanved Power Management support. The offset of the APM in the BIOS of
all ACER 5XX models
is not supported by the linux kernel. So the system hangs. One way to
boot the system with the installed
kernel without APM is to disable the APM. This can be done in the kernel
append line like this.

        LILO: linux apm=off
    

Now the system boots and you can compile a new kernel with the APM
patch. You can read more
about this above in the section Advanved Power Management.

Hope this helps.
-- 
R. Jay Campbell
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