Thanks for your suggestions. I also think I'd better try to read up on them. I expect to put GRML on the hard drive, even if it ends up being primarily to burn FC6 CD's, so it may give me the information you suggest I seek. Al ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 6:03 PM Subject: re: more fc6 installation blues > Albert, thanks much information you provided has provided as many useful > answers as you could possibly provide. The cmos header information may > provide you with some more useful information. If you get a Linux > installed or try again with some form of fc6 speakup disks maybe try using > acpi=force as one of the boot parameters. It could be an old acpi is > being blocked from running by default and acpi=force will clear that and > maybe give fc6 a little more information. Perhaps using lapic as another > boot parameter may improve a few things too. As an alternative apm=on > might be tried to substitute for acpi=force in boot parameters. If a > system does install you may be able to read cmos information at the top of > /var/logs/dmesg and if the cmos information has something else to say > other than intel I'll not be surprised. My cmos information identifies > this machine as a Dell. You could get the name of the computer store > where you bought the machine but I don't know. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.27/602 - Release Date: 12/25/2006 > >
