On (11/12/05 10:42), C. Beamer wrote: > Hi all, > > I've become so enamoured with Gentoo that I've decided to install on my > laptop. However, I'm having a bit of a problem. > > I'm at the point where I can boot the system and I've been trying to > install xorg-x11. However, the laptop keeps powering off on me. > > This wasn't a problem until I build the kernel where I built acpi > support into it. However, I *didn't* read the ACPI Guide and obviously, > should have. That's no big problem, I'll just recompile the kernel and > follow what the Guide says. > > My issue is this: The computer powered off in the middle of the install > of xorg-x11. This has happened a couple of times. I haven't been > having problems with the laptop, so I'm pretty sure the issue has > something to do with power management since I built power management > into the kernel, but didn't emerge acpid. Anyway, since the emerge of > xorg-x11 has bombed a couple of times, is there anything that I should > do in the way of clean up before trying to emerge it again? > > Regards, > > Colleen > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > Hi, No experience with laptops, but here's some suggestions. Check on Google about your laptop's brand,model etc. Reboot with kernel parameter "acpi=off" or other, check install docs/CD. Give here some info about it, very likely someone will have similar. HTH.Rumen
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