On 15/02/07, Dick Turpin <highwayman.turpin@gmail.com> wrote:

On 15/02/07, Kris Douglas <webbox.uk@gmail.com> wrote:

> Most Slackware distributions run on the Amillo D-7830's hardware...
>
> Slackware 9.1 is confirmed, but it is an old kernel.

I'm a failure at installing slackware :-(

> Debian fires up on a D6830 but suspend to disk and suspend to ram do not
> function.

Now that's interesting. Reboot works shutdown (This morning) failed
that's usually easy to fix normally I'd add "shutdown=poweroff" to
grub etc

> I will keep looking up information, to see if kubuntu/ ubuntu. As for
> replacing the distribution's files, I do not know. If you get the chance,
> try and download the alternate installation cdrom, if you haven't tried
> that yet, because it sometimes fixes a good load of bugs, i do not know how,
> but when the gui installer didn't work for me i used the alternate installer
> and it went through fine.

The strange thing is the Ubuntu live cd ran on it on Tuesday, true I
had to leave it for 3/4 of an hour but now anything I stick in gets as
far as loading the minimal kernel on the disk (Not the proper one but
the one used for installations) and just sits there.

--
Dick Turpin
"Stand and deliver!"

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