Thursday, October 18, 2007
OpenSuse 10.2 (64-bit) does not support ACPI on Gateway MT3418
I have been wrestling with OpenSuse 10.2 (64-bit) for the past few days on my Gateway MT3418. According to my experience, this distribution does not support ACPI properly, hence whenever I boot the OS, I have to make sure that I specify the "acpi=off" kernel boot option. If I do not do that, I just get a black screen and nothing ever boots. I have also been experimenting with Yast Software Management. As an Ubuntu user, I much prefer apt-get. It's quick and easy. Yast runs a bit slow in comparison, and it's not as easy to use as apt-get. Well that's all for now in my experiences with my Gateway MT3418. Feel free to leave any insight.
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May I recommend a Linux distro to test on your laptop? I currently run the 32 bit SimplyMEPIS 6.5.02 on my Compaq Evo N610C as well as on my main box. Mepis is one of the major distros listed on Distrowatch.com (see http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major) and I use it because it just works out the box with no questions asked. There is a 64 bit version available as well. The only problem I had and actually still battling is Intel AC’97 audio driver for the laptop, but its not really a concern for me because I use the laptop once a week for school and during travel. Other than that, I highly recommend it. Mepis 6.5 is based off of Ubuntu, therefore it can use apt-get for software management, but I prefer to use Synaptic.
ReplyDeleteThe Debian-based Mepis 7.0 is currently in testing and should be released fairly soon. Due to user-friendliness, hardware support, and helpful forums, its hard for me to even look at another distro to use.
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I used Mepis before, about 3 years ago. As you say, it was user-friendly and easy to use. But that was before I found Ubuntu and after using it for a while I kinda feel as you do, it's hard to switch to another distro. I'm only using OpenSuse 10.2 for two reasons. One, because it's recommended by PTLSim/X (a full system-simulator www.ptlsim.org) and because it's supposed to have great support for Xen hypervisor. I will probably try out Mepis as a VM on top of Xen to test it out. Thanks for the heads up.
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