<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Thompson Freeman <<a href="mailto:tfreeman@intel.digichem.net">tfreeman@intel.digichem.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On 05/23/2008 08:15:07 PM, Marc Ferguson wrote:<br>
> Hi All,<br>
><br>
> I hope I don't get flak for this, but I'm looking for a distro to put<br>
> on my<br>
> IBM ThankPad R40. It has an ATI video card, 40BG Harddrive, 15"<br>
> monitor<br>
> with max resolution at 1024x768. I tried OpenSUSE 10, but I didn't<br>
> like it<br>
> so much. I've done some searching and it's a toss up between Debian,<br>
> Gentoo, and Mandriva. If anyone has any suggestions - I'd love to<br>
> hear it.<br>
> Thanks.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Well, on my ancient ThinkPad I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 quite nicely.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I tried Ubuntu 7.10 and also 8.04. I'm having an issue with the CD freezing up in the menu. After it boots it gives me options to run the LiveCD, Check the CD, etc. When I press ENTER it freezes up. I posted on Ubuntu's forum and someone mentioned something about:<br>
<br>noapic nolapic <br><br>I'll have to search that up, but I don't know what that is. I did install OpenSUSE , one time, so the CD drive isn't broken.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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