Re: Red Hat Linux 9 on HP Pavilion zt1145

From: Trent (trentallenblack_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/24/03


Date: 24 Nov 2003 06:40:43 -0800

S.Georgoulas@eim.surrey.ac.uk (Stelios Georgoulas) wrote in message news:<63b364a2.0311181022.ba5e764@posting.google.com>...
> Hi everyone!
> Last week a friend of mine installed this version of linux on the
> aforementioned laptop. He used to have Red Hat 8.0 running OK but
> after a big crash, X server wouldnt work so we thought that installing
> Red Hat 9 from scratch would be a good idea. The installation was
> flawless but now, with no apparent reason, the laptop freezes
> completely at random.
> Has anyone ever experienced any similar problems with the same laptop?
> Could it be an ACPI or another background process related problem?
> I suppose that since 8.0 would run fine there shouldn't be an
> incompatibility issue causing the trouble.
> If it cannot be solved would you recommend rolling back to Red Hat 8.0
> or should we give Mandrake 9.2 a try?
> Cheers!

Go for Mandrake.



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