2004 ASUS M5000 X not working puppy 4.3.1, lupu 5.1.1 5.2.5
Posted: Mon 01 Apr 2019, 15:55
Very nice 12" non-glare non-widescreen 2004 Pentium M laptop which I can find no information about online except for memory. 512MB microDIMMs (2x256MB, expensive stuff, though larger SODIMMs do exist).. Wifi and sound work. Lovely keyboard and very portable. CPU speed test 23 blowfish, 49 cryptohash (very respectable for its age).
No USB boot but CD drive works. I do not have lupu2016 on CD just flash drive.
Lupu's with 2.6 kernels:
Lupu 5.2.8.6 - kernel panic
Lupu 5.2.5 - no X. xorgwizard runs but exits to prompt. kernel 2.6.33.2
Lupu 5.1.1 - VESA driver works but as soon as I click to accept settings,
it exits to prompt. Xorg exited to prompt.
Puppy 4.3.1 (kernel 2.6.30.5) - Xorg works (1024x768x24). While trying to install using grub I switched to a VT to edit menu.lst and now if I try to switch back to X, I get a black screen which I cannot get out of.
I hear the (quiet) fan and the CD will not eject. Power off.
Wary 5.5 (kernel 2.6.32.59). Xorg 7.3 works. Simple Network Setup DHCP fails. The regular network setup works (wifi). Sound works.
I copied the suggested lines to the middle of menu.lst but did not get a boot menu when I rebooted (it went to DOS). I did not try switching to and from VT. (I am not familiar with plain GRUB).
Tahr 6.0.5 boots straight to X then immediately exits X with a page of errors. including "Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt".
Preceded by unable to handle kernel paging request at ....., and lists of Stack and Call Trace. Ending in panic occurred, switching back to text console. The computer no longer responds but the screen shows text..
Many other linux users had the same problem (Ubuntu, Centos) and one figured out that the problem occurs with kernels newer than 2.6.32.
In 2.6.32 or older the computer still sometimes shuts down randomly possibly due to overheating (in 1 min use?).
Wary seems to work (though i have not tested the VT video problem). Where do I put the lines for wary in menu.lst?
I also have a 2004 Compaq V5000 that freezes up if I try to switch from X to a virtual terminal. Bad year for linux?
No USB boot but CD drive works. I do not have lupu2016 on CD just flash drive.
Lupu's with 2.6 kernels:
Lupu 5.2.8.6 - kernel panic
Lupu 5.2.5 - no X. xorgwizard runs but exits to prompt. kernel 2.6.33.2
Lupu 5.1.1 - VESA driver works but as soon as I click to accept settings,
it exits to prompt. Xorg exited to prompt.
Puppy 4.3.1 (kernel 2.6.30.5) - Xorg works (1024x768x24). While trying to install using grub I switched to a VT to edit menu.lst and now if I try to switch back to X, I get a black screen which I cannot get out of.
I hear the (quiet) fan and the CD will not eject. Power off.
Wary 5.5 (kernel 2.6.32.59). Xorg 7.3 works. Simple Network Setup DHCP fails. The regular network setup works (wifi). Sound works.
I copied the suggested lines to the middle of menu.lst but did not get a boot menu when I rebooted (it went to DOS). I did not try switching to and from VT. (I am not familiar with plain GRUB).
Tahr 6.0.5 boots straight to X then immediately exits X with a page of errors. including "Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt".
Preceded by unable to handle kernel paging request at ....., and lists of Stack and Call Trace. Ending in panic occurred, switching back to text console. The computer no longer responds but the screen shows text..
Many other linux users had the same problem (Ubuntu, Centos) and one figured out that the problem occurs with kernels newer than 2.6.32.
In 2.6.32 or older the computer still sometimes shuts down randomly possibly due to overheating (in 1 min use?).
Wary seems to work (though i have not tested the VT video problem). Where do I put the lines for wary in menu.lst?
I also have a 2004 Compaq V5000 that freezes up if I try to switch from X to a virtual terminal. Bad year for linux?