Not too long ago I retired my Compaq V5000 CTO Laptop in favor of a newer HP 6515b. The only thing I’m missing thus far is the long life battery I had on the V5000, but that can easily be fixed with a few $$.<\/p>\n
I am a big fan of dual booting systems – it’s always a good idea to have a backup plan in case the first plan fails. I put Vista Enterprise SP1 x64 on my new laptop (I have to get used to Vista eventually since I do have to support the machines at work). I then waited patiently for 8.10 Ubuntu to be released.<\/p>\n
Went to install x64 of Ubuntu – install took just over 2 hours. Odd. Then nothing is really working up to par with a 2.2GHz AMD X2. I’m sorry to say, but it’s so far been a bad experience. I figured maybe it was a 64bit issue – redownload and try to install 32bit. The installer is taking forever again, so I forgo the installer and reboot.<\/p>\n
Then I looked on the Ubuntuforums for some answers.<\/p>\n
Basically, the ACPI is not fully written for. ACPI is advanced configuration and power interface.
\nThat and the APIC is not fully written for. APIC is advanced programmable interrupt controller.<\/p>\n
I’ve been told that when you are installing Ubuntu, run it with the ACPI=OFF command, and then when it’s installed, remove the ACPI=OFF from the menu.lst and replace it with noapic.<\/p>\n
Here’s the fix: Not too long ago I retired my Compaq V5000 CTO Laptop in favor of a newer HP 6515b. The only thing I’m missing thus far is the long life battery I had on the V5000, but that can easily be fixed with a few $$. I am a big fan of dual booting systems – … Continue reading Ubuntu 8.10 VERY Slow On HP Laptop<\/span>
\nsudo nano \/boot\/grub\/menu.lst<\/code>
\nThen find where it says kernel \/boot\/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic root=UUID=bunchoflettersandnumbers ro quiet splash<\/code>
\nWe want it to say ro quiet splash noapic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"