I have tried to get Mandriva Spring 2008 running on my laptop - without success so far! the progress bar on the first Mandriva screen moves about 20% then stalls<br><div class="gmail_quote"><br>Someone on Mandriva forums suggested I add 'noapic nolapic acpi=off' to the boot options, but that did not work either!!<br>
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well, the 'noapic...' did produce more movement, the progress bar moved
across but then the screen went blank! one time it actually went back
to GRUB, but usually just a black screen, no cursor<br><br>another forum contributor suggested the Linux distro could not deal with the computer's video drivers(?) <br>
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my Boot Options (apart from adding 'noapic...') are currently;
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L 11dd-96ee-7fdfle22462d resume=/dev/sda4 splash=silent vga=788
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my computer is Medion - Intel Celeron <a href="mailto:CPU540@1.86GHz" target="_blank">CPU540@1.86GHz</a> Chrome9 HCIGP Family WDDM
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any further thoughts, ideas, suggestions gratefully received...</span><br>
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