On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 12:29 -0800, mrrs wrote:
--- P Marvin Eberly eberlyml@wjtl.net wr
On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 12:18 -0500, Chris Mauritz wrote:
mrrs wrote:
Has anyone managed to install CentOS 4.2 on an HP dv5000 64 bit laptop?
I boot from the install cd, and all of the options I have tried ( return, linux text, linux noprobe, linux lowres ) have had the same result: some text scrolls by really fast ( looks
like
the start of the install), then the screen goes blank with no activity of any kind.
The processor is the turion 64, and it has ATI video. The odd thing is, I was actually able
to
boot knoppix 4.0 to repartition it for dual boot
any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
I have a Compaq v2000z with a Turion ML-37 processor and had no trouble with the install of CentOS 4.2 but I guess lacked the proper drivers to enable dma. I also have the ATI Express 200m, but experienced nothing like you are describing. I ended up putting FC4 on it and have it working pretty well.
What video driver are you using?
I am using the ATI driver from Livna in FC4, never got that far in CentOS 4.2. I fought for a while but did get the ATI drivers to work super at 1280X768, again on FC4.
I am noticing the same thing about dma on the drive - it is painfully slow...
This is beyond my skill level, but as I understand it the drivers for my chipset (ATI RS480) didn't get included in the kernel until the later kernels. DMA was not enabled and when I tried to enable it with hdparm I got an error which I don't recall but researching it brought me to the conclusion that the drivers were lacking. It took about 1 1/2 hours to install CentOS and crapped out on three of five attempts. When it was loaded it was unusably slow. I suspect you could roll your own kernel, but I've never done that and didn't know where to start.
Hope this helps,
PME
thanks
markus
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