20 July 2000

I got my new notebook, and installed Linux on it. It is mostly working. The only real problem I have had is with resuming from a hibernate when I was in X. With X in 32-bit mode, the display gets garbled. With 16-bit mode, the whole machine locks up. Changing to another VT before hibernation avoids the problem. I wonder if XFree86 4.0 would fix the problem? It is probably caused by the Compaq bios not saving enough of the state on the graphics card (enough for the windows drivers but not enough for XF86_Mach64)

I was also upgrading another Linux box, and the installer caused an exception just after installing all the packages, so I had to set up the last few things by hand. A bit annoying but not too difficult to fix.