Re: Booting HP pavilion dv2000 laptop

2016-11-06 Thread John D. Baker
On Sun, 30 Oct 2016, John D. Baker wrote: > Booting GENERIC with "-2c" to disable ACPI and drop into userconf > permits disabling the "nouveau*" driver after which the process continues > as above (hangs probing cd0 and wd0 until power button is pressed). Booting with -12c to disable SMP and ACPI

Re: Booting HP pavilion dv2000 laptop

2016-10-29 Thread Michael van Elst
jdba...@mylinuxisp.com ("John D. Baker") writes: >Booting GENERIC hangs when attaching "acpi0". >Booting GENERIC with "-2c" to disable ACPI and drop into userconf >permits disabling the "nouveau*" driver after which the process continues >as above (hangs probing cd0 and wd0 until power button is

Booting HP pavilion dv2000 laptop

2016-10-29 Thread John D. Baker
I have access to an HP pavilion dv2000 laptop. It is AMD Turion (64-bit) with mostly NVIDIA accessories. It has Linux Mint 17.3 on the local disk which works quite well (and doesn't use 'systemd'--yay!). This being the first machine I encountered with NVIDIA video, I was curious about how well N