On 2018-01-15 04:13 PM, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
>
> The solution to this was hard to find but simpler than expected: add the
> 'noapic' option on the command line to the kernel at boot time, and
> magically everything is working fine.
Man, I'd forgotten about that option. Had a machine around a
On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 09:13:20PM +, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
> The solution to this was hard to find but simpler than expected: add the
> 'noapic' option on the command line to the kernel at boot time, and
> magically everything is working fine. I did this after finding a reference
> to tha
On 10 November 2017 at 20:31, Giles Orr wrote:
> I have a very old laptop I'm trying to rehabilitate and use with Debian:
> it's got an AMD Turion chip and 1G of RAM. Works fine. But one annoying
> problem under Linux: the fan runs flat out all the time. If the 'sensors'
> command is correct,
On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:09:51 -0500
Giles Orr via talk wrote:
> >> keyword, 'may' on my notebook the main fan has two pins but it has
> >> variable speed... so i guess ymmv
> >> so +1 for checking the manual or contact manufacturer
> >> website/support
> >> > manual. As this is a laptop you may f
On 12 November 2017 at 09:20, David Thornton via talk
wrote:
> I find that sometimes different distros have different default supported
> configs and grok to different degrees various features and hardware.
>
> You might try booting various live cds and see what they grok. I loved
> knoppix to qu
I find that sometimes different distros have different default supported
configs and grok to different degrees various features and hardware.
You might try booting various live cds and see what they grok. I loved
knoppix to quickly tell how linux friendly a given machine is. Maybe ubuntu
or fedora
On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 20:37:43 -0500
Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
> On 2017-11-10 03:31 PM, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
> > I have a very old laptop I'm trying to rehabilitate and use with
> > Debian: it's got an AMD Turion chip and 1G of RAM. Works fine.Â
> > But one annoying problem under Linux: t
On 2017-11-10 03:31 PM, Giles Orr via talk wrote:
I have a very old laptop I'm trying to rehabilitate and use with Debian:
it's got an AMD Turion chip and 1G of RAM. Works fine. But one annoying
problem under Linux: the fan runs flat out all the time.Â
If the fan connection to the MB is on
I have a very old laptop I'm trying to rehabilitate and use with Debian:
it's got an AMD Turion chip and 1G of RAM. Works fine. But one annoying
problem under Linux: the fan runs flat out all the time. If the 'sensors'
command is correct, the CPU has never gone above 35C, so the fan isn't
runnin
