Re: [tlug] Installing Linux on an Asus laptop

[Mattia Dongili <malattia@example.com>]

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 08:59:21PM +0900, David Bernat wrote:
> I have been trying to install Linux on an older model
> of Asus laptop.
> 
> Each distribution I've tried to install hits something
> in video memory and/or video configuration, and promptly
> crashes before I can enter the password to enter _root_.

so it installs successfully?

> Distributions tried: Suse, Zenwalk, Xubuntu, Damn Small
> Linux, Vine, Xandros, Debian 3.0, Debian 3.1, and Debian
> 4.0.
> 
> The video card is from Silicon Motion, and has 4MB of
> memory on board (not shared with base system RAM).
> 
> Amount of RAM: 32 MB soldered to the motherboard and
> 128 MB in the add-on memory slot.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what is happening, and how
> to work around the problem?

disable any framebuffer mode? kind of 'nofb' on the kernel command
line.

-- 
mattia
:wq!