Toshiba A215 Fedora 7 install

[Englander, Irvin]

Has anyone run into and solved this install problem? It's a Toshiba Satellite A215. The install (and the machine) hangs with the messaqe "ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing." The chip set on my laptop uses the AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core TL56 chip set. We upgraded the BIOS to its current version (1.40) but the result was identical. (There's almost nothing in this particular BIOS that can be modified.) This machine belongs to a student of mine.

She posted the problem to the linuxquestions.org and the fedoraforum.org, but as of tonight there were no replies.  She also searched the microsoft forum and the toshiba forum.  There are many users with varying laptop makes/models having issues with linux flavor installations.  Many have an ACPI issue, but the installs seem to have been successful overall.  Their issues have to do with display options, sound issues, mouse pointer issues, etc.  Several posts mention an install hang but those were mostly with ubuntu.  Additionally, those seem to have been worked through by changing a setting/option in other BIOSes to recognize a second hard drive, disabling a hyperthread option, or by installing a different linux flavor or version.  There are no postings dealing with this specific issue that she could find.

Irv Englander
ienglander-ROuZJvFXBa6Vc3sceRu5cw at public.gmane.org


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