On Saturday 14 February 2009 16:47:29 you wrote: > Hi John, > > Have you tried turning off acpi at boot time in the kernel? Most installers > will let you add extra arguments to the kernel command line at startup. You > should try adding something like > > acpi=off noapic > > to the kernel boot command in grub. I'm never used Slackware I'm afraid, so > I don't know exactly how to do it for that distro. > > Good luck! > Jerome >
Having got the live DVD of SUSE 11.1 to work I had at last access to Google, and I did manage to discover and get slackware to boot using acpi=off and noapic, by appending them to lilo, however I now have the interesting problems that, a) the mouse doesn't work, and I am finding after years of a mouse the 'touch pad', extremely difficult and counter intuitive, and b), shutdown -h now doesn't turn off the power, only the system. But now I have a usable version of Firefox and Google those will give me something to challenge me for a while, by which time I hope to have my desktop PC back and running again. Thank you so much for your help, this laptop has so far provided me with several hours of intellectual challenge! _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish
