The blog of Michael Rice

Well I posted about the hardships I had trying to get linux installed on my new laptop the other day. I would just like to sy that I now have everything working, and even have the nvidia drivers working on my video for the 3d functionality. Here is what I did to fix:

linux noapic

I stuck in my fedora core 6 DVD and at the boot prompt thats what I typed. Please note that this is not the same as noacpi (the power management stuff). I must thank my good buddy Joe Burnett for doing some googling for me while I was sleeping and posted some info he found which gave me the step. If you have this laptop passing this option at install time will fix the random locking and freezes. I verified this with Fedora, Ubuntu, and Gentoo. I hope this will help someone out there.

Many of you may not know that google is now offering project hosting. This is great. I have been needing svn access for a project I work on, and this made it simple. I just went and filled out a short form and started using the service. Thanks google