New ubuntu install freezes on boot on IBM T21 laptop

[paul sutton]

Hi

I have a t22 and kanotix (debian sid) works great (thanks to Kush again 
btw for the cd),    the t22 has 256 mb ram,  I am running kde nicely I 
can even run open office from kde (i mean load openoffice from kde 
menus),  it also works great with my smc wireless network card,

I think debian is a very worthwhile distro,  so it may be worth 
investigating that,  as an alternative to ubuntu which I guess is more 
geared up for the later hardware, in terms of ram, requirements,  even 
though if kde works on my computer than it should work with any distro, 
and a similar amount of ram, I am guessing though,

Paul



Kush wrote:

> if the t21 has ram below 512mb, ubuntu/kubuntu/edubuntu will 
> definitely give problems. From what i have read about the t21 at 
> epinions.com, it is a 128mb machine.
>
> Kush
>
> William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 02:31:46PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Alex Maynard wrote:
>>>    
>>>
>>>> Hi All:
>>>>
>>>> Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on a problem I've been 
>>>> having
>>>> with IBM T21 laptop?
>>>>
>>>> I installed a new kubuntu disk on my laptop. At first it worked 
>>>> well. But
>>>> about a day later it started going blank halfway through reboot and 
>>>> kept
>>>> doing this.  So essentially I couldn't boot from the hard drive.
>>>>
>>>> Later I reinstalled ubuntu and the same thing happened.  I used
>>>> to have the same laptop working using libranet but they went out of
>>>> business and my CDs from them are too far out of date to update 
>>>> without
>>>> dependency problems.
>>>>
>>>> The only thing I can think of to do now is to try a differerent
>>>> distribution (any suggestions?), but I thought I would run this by
>>>> you to see what other suggestions you might have.
>>>>       
>>>
>>> SUSE has good ThinkPad support.
>>>     
>>
>>
>> It is probably not a distro problem, but that some aspect of hardware is
>> misconfigured and balking the boot.  Can you report the place in the
>> boot process that the "blanking" happens?  If the screen is going blank
>> I would think it'd be a power management setting that's barfing, but it
>> could be a range of things.
>>
>> Debian also has good ThinkPad support, but I don't think that that's the
>> actual issue.
>>   
>
>
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