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bhanuvrat

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Registered: 2010-03-15

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Dell studio 14 does not boot without acpi=off

I have a dell studio 1450 laptop which is having o many configuration problems that its making me pull my hair off.
For this thread, it does not boot without acpi=off on most of the distros namely ubuntu, opensuse, mandriva etc. Well what happens if I try to boot it without the flag is that the screen goes blank when the system tries to load acpi modules.

Only slackware booted off fine without turning acpi=off.

With arch linux its showing a rather more peculiar behavior sometimes it boots off fine without acpi=off and sometimes it does not.
What I am not able to understand is .. how can a stupid machine behave randomly?

I recently compiled kernel 2.6.33 on opensuse and found that the problem was solved .. can this solve the problem on arch too?

Battery meter is not available in acpi=off mode.

Help me out before I pluck each hair off my scalp and turn bald .. pleeaassseeee !!!

lagagnon

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Registered: 2009-12-10

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Re: Dell studio 14 does not boot without acpi=off

This is a long shot but what about going into the BIOS setup and setting everything back to system defaults and try again?

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bhanuvrat

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Registered: 2010-03-15

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Re: Dell studio 14 does not boot without acpi=off

setting to defaults?? I didn't ever change anything and my bios does not offer much options to screw up

raf_kig

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Registered: 2008-11-28

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Re: Dell studio 14 does not boot without acpi=off

> I recently compiled kernel 2.6.33 on opensuse and found that the problem was solved .. can this solve the problem on arch too?
How about you just try it?

bhanuvrat

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Registered: 2010-03-15

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Re: Dell studio 14 does not boot without acpi=off

yeah .. somehow even I figured out that compiling a new kernel with all favorable options can be a solution for many problems.
and while doing so I am again facing problems:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=94562

help me out !!! I have already spent 7 hrs firing the make command over and over again to see it all go in vain.

regards
bhanuvrat