Since Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala is relatively new, and you might be the first person to test it on a Samsung R510, it would be prudent to post your problem on the Ubuntu Forums as well.
I also got Karmic 64-bit downloaded and ready to install but I need to prepare some stuff before dishing out my Jaunty which really worked like a charm out of the disc (since it didnt come out of the box :-) Sorry can't help you there since I dont have a 'sung R510 with me though. On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Grigory Javadyan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello everybody! > > I have a Samsung R510 laptop (with an Intel Core 2 Duo processor) > which currently runs a 32-bit version of Linux Mint 7. Yesterday I > decided to give a try to the 64-bit edition of Ubuntu 9.10 since > everybody says its awesome. So I downloaded the iso image, burned it > to a disc and tried to boot from it. > When I selected the "try ubuntu without installing it" option, the > screen went blank for a few seconds and then the laptop rebooted. > Then I tried to boot a 64-bit verison of openSUSE 11.0 from a CD - > with the same result! The laptop just restarted when an attempt was > made to load the kernel. > I understood that it had to be some kind of distro-independent > hardware-related issue. > Well, to make the long story short, after some googling, I found two > workarounds for this: > > 1. Use the acpi=off option during boot. The system started normally, > but, of course, none of > the acpi-related stuff worked - couldn't even monitor the battery > status, which was > totally unacceptable for a laptop. > > 2. Use the mem=4096m during boot. Everything works fine, but the system > sees > only 3 GB of RAM, while I have 4 GB of RAM. > > Now, I want to a 64-bit Linux and have both 4 GB of RAM and working > ACPI, if possible. So I'd appreciate any advice on that. Thanks for > the help ahead of time :-) > > > > -- Penguin, penguin, and more penguin. Believe that within the brain is a brain, and within it another brain, and so on and so forth. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
