Acer Travelmate 220

[cjs1949]

Firstly, I use PCLOS on my desktops, great, no problem. BUT I have tried with all desktop variations to boot up on the above  laptop. They all fail, usually by stopping when a selection box appears for the keyboard, no text is shown and it goes no further. With the 2010 version it gets to opening the desktop but as soon as I click anywhere the desktop crashes and I have to log in again. I have tried booting with all the various options like VESA, Safe settings, no APIC etc, etc. but that is the closest I get. The strange thing is that although it's a slightly elderly laptop, the latest MEPIS 8.5 works a treat the drawback being that their software repo is way behind ours in terms of being up to date. Any ideas lovely people?

[menotu]

Hi cjs1949,

Can you post back with your machine specs, especially the graphic card/chip you are using and the amount of ram you have, then the forum will be in a better position to help.

The LiveCD you use on the desktop is the same one for the Acer? If it/they are new burns have you done a media and/or md5sum check just to whittle down what could be causing it.....

[cjs1949]

Hi,
Thanks for your offer of help , here's what I know about it.

1.33GHz Celeron
Intel 830MG chipset 8Mhz shared video memory
14" TFT 1024 x 768 display
768MHz RAM

I guess you need to know a bit  more than this but it's all I've managed to find out so far

[MaddogF16]

Regular 8.5 or antix?

[cjs1949]

Regular, it works very well but I still prefer PCLOS