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    Sager NP5760 Dual-boot WinXP/Kubuntu-Feisty Issues

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by masinger53, Jun 24, 2007.

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    masinger53 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well, I am having some issues, including the disappearing optical drive described in this thread
    in both Windows and Kubuntu after the Feisty install. I will try adding the kernel parameter acpi=off to the Kubuntu section, but not sure how that will help the Windows side unless it gets added there too and I am a tad nervous about messing with Windows boot syntax in GRUB.

    Also, there is a problem with the keyboard apparently being disabled. I noticed when booting various flavors of LiveCDs to resize the XP partition that the keyboard is disabled unless I enter the BIOS first. I found this accidentally when checking to see if USB-key boot was enabled and tested it repeatedly. It remains after the install. If I don't enter the BIOS first, it sits forever at the first screen and beeps on keypress -- boot menu for GRUB, fancy boot menu for LiveCD. All that needs to happen to re-enable the keyboard is to enter the BIOS first on power up, I don't need to save anything. Anyone have any thoughts on this weirdness?

    I tried using Envy to update the video drivers, which has produced an unusable X configuration, so I'll boot some recovery tool, possibly grml, and roll back the X configuration and try again manually. Wish me luck! :confused2:
     
    masinger53, Jun 24, 2007
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