[TriLUG] Laptop boot issues...

[Darrell Sandiford]

A dell Inspiron/8000


Roy Vestal wrote:
> which laptop? what video? I had this on my toshiba 2800-S201 and it worked 
> fine no problem even though it was a S3 Savage/MX video. Course now it's 
> running Solaris 2.8. :) 
> 
> On Tuesday 01 April 2003 1:49 pm, Darrell Sandiford wrote:
> 
>>Hello all,
>>
>>
>>I have a laptop with dual boot  Linux\windows ME on it. Of late, when I
>>boot up in Linux or shutdown either by the control panel or by issuing
>>the "shutdown -h 0" command, all of a sudden, the image\screen will go
>>white...either all at once or gradually fade to white and the system
>>will lock up. I have to manually power down and restart the laptop a
>>couple of times before I can finally get a clean boot up. Again, this
>>happens either when I boot up or when I shutdown and it only happens in
>>Linux. These are the following updates or boot options and kernels that
>>were placed on the laptop so far:
>>2.4.18.27.7.x
>>2.4.18.24.7.x
>>2.4.18.19.7.x
>>2.4.18.17.7.x
>>2.4.9-34
>>2.4.9-31
>>2.4.7-10
>>  I'm thinking that it might be an X-windows problem but I'm not sure.
>>Any ideas as to what this is and how I can resolve it would be deeply
>>appreciated. Please bear with me if I use incorrect terminology, I am
>>some what new to the Linux RedHat world of things, Thanks.
>>
>>
>>Darrell.
>>
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