Atealtha
04-25-2003, 05:46 PM
I know I have been writing often about my laptop. I recently gave up and went back to Win XP Home. Well I want to give it another shot. The first time there was a kernel panic regarding PnP (common problem, I found out). So I go ahead to /usr/src/linux and do make menuconfig (I always use Gentoo, btw). I take out PnP, recompile, and reboot. Surprise surprise, the kernel panic disappears. But now I get a new message. It says something about my PCI.
I admit I don't know much about laptops as I do with desktops. I went to both linux-on-laptops and tuxmobil to do some reading, but I still do not know how to fix this problem. Is it safe to disable PCI on a laptop? Do laptops even use PCI? I got no idea, and can't find the right info I need on these sites.
Again, I want to give Linux another try on my laptop, but it gets very tiring, working days at a time to install Gentoo. So I want to get this right. Other distros wont even install. RedHat 9 wouldn't even get past the "check media" stage. And my BIOS is so crappy that all I can configure is stuff like date, time, and bootup order. My keyboard layout is messed up. | is @ and # is ~ and iunno whats going on. This would make it difficult for me to edit my conf files before I can install a keymapping app. Is there anyone who would like to help me out and finally bring my laptop to the linux family? Thanks in advance.
I admit I don't know much about laptops as I do with desktops. I went to both linux-on-laptops and tuxmobil to do some reading, but I still do not know how to fix this problem. Is it safe to disable PCI on a laptop? Do laptops even use PCI? I got no idea, and can't find the right info I need on these sites.
Again, I want to give Linux another try on my laptop, but it gets very tiring, working days at a time to install Gentoo. So I want to get this right. Other distros wont even install. RedHat 9 wouldn't even get past the "check media" stage. And my BIOS is so crappy that all I can configure is stuff like date, time, and bootup order. My keyboard layout is messed up. | is @ and # is ~ and iunno whats going on. This would make it difficult for me to edit my conf files before I can install a keymapping app. Is there anyone who would like to help me out and finally bring my laptop to the linux family? Thanks in advance.