[Wylug-help] me, an acer laptop, a bottle of whisky , a pistol and two bullets.

[John Hodrien]

On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, chek jallaei wrote:

> laptop does not reboot in ubuntu clean install or live cds anymore.  it
> shuts down. but it does not reboot. after the reboot script/halt command is
> issued.. it hangs on black screen. my guess its the restart bit.  when hard
> powered off -

I found the same problem with a Dell box we've got here.  Fixed with a kernel
argument reboot=hard.  Worked fine with some older kernels without this.

> also anyone familiar with the ati mobility radeon 9000/91000 igp?
>
> is it  worth trying to use the ati drivers for a performance increase?
> i have the feeling it would actually be slower!

Why would you think it would be slower?

jh

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