It is all NVIDIA so good luck finding any docs or a person that cares. Do yourself a favor and send it back and buy something that sucks less.
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:13:47PM +0800, David S. wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Marco Peereboom <sl...@peereboom.us> wrote: > > These desktops seem very problematic. I know of people that have > > abandoned it altogether. > > > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 08:31:59PM +0800, David S. wrote: > >> Hello there, > >> > >> unfortunately my newly acquired Lenovo Desktop, Model Number A5790R > >> will Kernel Panic before during boot. The install of i386 4.6 itself > >> goes fine. I tried to boot with acpi disabled, to no avail. Also i > >> played around with various settings in the BIOS pertaining to certain > >> CPU Features and S-ATA Features, like EHCI, Compatible, Legacy IDE, > >> etc, all no help. > >> > >> Please find attached the output of my Serial Console Session which > >> shows the Kernel Panic output, ps and trace. I could not run trace on > >> the other CPU, as issuing a machdep 1 hangs the Machine completely. > >> > >> In case someone can help me out, id be very grateful. Also, please > >> snip out all the below output in replies so it looks nicer in the > >> thread :-) > >> > >> Thanks and best regards, > >> David S. > >> > >> > >> --- Boot until Panic --- > >> snip > >> --- END of Mail > >> > > > > It seems they really have some issues, but hopefully someone takes > heart and fixes / improves them :-) In the past, i have had great > success with OpenBSD & IBM / Lenovo, especially of course on Laptops > eg. Thinkpads. I have another one of these Desktops, same Brand - > slightly older model, which throws a different error, but also panics > on boot. Will document it tomorrow
