ubuntu on laptop

[Sgood1971]

Wendy Leigh Vandoolaeghe Wrote: 
> Hi
> 
> i've had trouble getting Mandrake 10.1 to work on a Solo Gateway
> laptop. 
> But am now considering wiping harddisk and installing ubuntu. has
> anyone 
> installed ubuntu on this type of laptop and what are my chances of
> getting 
> it to work? Or should i rather stick with debian testing?
> 
> cheers
> wendel
> 
> Errors at start-up were related to cpufreq and pcmcia. The pcmcia card 
> works but the system breaks at shutdown during the step of shutting
> down 
> pcmcia services with the error message Trying to free non-existent
> resource 
> <000002e8-000002ef>
> 
> 
> [root at emt1000 emt1000]# cardctl ident
> Socket 0:
> no product info available
> Socket 1:
> product info: "Xircom", "CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56",
> "CEM56", "1.00"
> manfid: 0x0105, 0x110a
> function: 2 (serial)
> 
> -- 
> Wendy Leigh Vandoolaeghe
> e-mail: wlv21 at cam.ac.uk
> mobile: 07813 177 039
> 
> 
> 
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Warty works fine on my solo and my 200STM as well. Default install but
I had to disable ACPI and enable APM.


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