On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 08:47:17AM -0400, Chris Elston wrote:
to install more stuff later. Reboot, go through the "first boot" deal and then...nothing. Well, not quite nothing. White on black terminal comes up with login prompt instead of graphical login. Catch is, my keyboard doesn't respond. So even if I wanted to login or change to other virtual terminals (Ctrl+Alt+F2, etc) I'm out of luck. Tried rebooting again, just to see if it had something to do w/ the "first boot" going wrong, but no dice. Tried reinstalling using the default "desktop" set of packages thinking that I may have installed "too much" and some unnecessary service was making my laptop hang. Eventually I have the same problems, hangs after graphical boot and goes to a unusable text-based login.
Have you tried booting with acpi=off?
(Yes, I ask this about every new kind of possible hardware-related strangeness that first shows up now, it's amazing the variety of problems we've seen caused by acpi...)
michaelkjohnson
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