Re: Help needed with laptop

1999-01-15 Thread Patrick Colbeck
I had a similar problem with an AST M series laptop. Turned out it was the way Debian compile the kernel for the distribution. Try compliling your own kernel and make sure you make a zImage kernel rather than a bzImage kernel and hopefully you should be OK. Pat On Thu Jan 14, 1999 at 06:43:45PM

Help needed with laptop

1999-01-14 Thread tracheotomy bob
Hallo all, I relly hope you can help me with this REALLY annoying problem. I recently bought a Sony VAIO 747 (impulse) and I want to put Debian on it (I have 2.0 (hamm)). I can put Red Hat 5.1 on it easily. But Debian is a bitch. Sometimes it starts and sometimes it doesn't. It