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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