Posts by adewolf

Well the install works but after being installed no CDROM drive and lots of things not working like where is the r1000 module for my ethernet card that was on the last bootable unstable, 5.2. So back to Linux Mint for now.

Quote: Originally Posted by TwilightVampire Congrats! I hope you enjoy Elive. I cant get any version to work on my laptop, but its amazing on my desktop. I had this problem too but there is a new booter used...

Hello all: I just got Elive 5.5 unstable last night and loaded it on my Asus A8JS lappy. Seems to run fine, I will be getting the latest Nvidia drivers and the ipw3945 driver sometime today. Very pretty distro as well as having all the...

I just donwloaded 5.3 and same problem. Adding libata.atapi_enabled=1 gives: Unknown boot option `libata.atapi_enabled=1`. Alex

Thanks. I have been getting erratic operation without this.

Is this MS trying to torpedo Linux in general? What about DRM'd BIOS? Will Linux be bootable in the next gen of computers with the DRM'd BIOS??? Enquiring minds want to know. Alex

I don't mean to derail this thread but is 64bit really worth the effort? Alex

I would have gone with Elive but it refuses to see my ATAPI or USB CDROM on my notebook (Asus A8JS). Alex

I had both and the extra pixels and 64bit cpu are worth it. Very portable as well. Alex

I have an Asus A8JS with the Core Duo 7200. I went the Dapper 64 way but got snagged by Flash and the Nvidia proprietary driver. I just could not get them to work, so I went back to Linux Mint 32bit (Ubuntu Dapper with audio and video...