Re: Problems with Lenny AMD64 on Acer TravelMate 3043

[Florian Reitmeir <florian@reitmeir.org>]

Hi,

On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, James Brown wrote:

> Florian Reitmeir wrote:
> > On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, James Brown wrote:
> > > I have an Acer notebook TravelMate 3043WTMi CPU Core 2 Duo 1,6 GHz 4,0
> > > GB RAM
> > > I have installed the Lenny AMD64 on it in addition to earlier installed
> > > Windows XP.
> > > When I try to boot Lenny AMD64 I cannot do it becouse the grub tell me
> > > the follows:
> > >
> > > [ 16.1313901] tg3 Flow control is off for TX and off for RX
> > > [ 16.738256] ACPI : EC : non-query interrupt received, switching to
> > > interrupt mode
> > > [ 16.738256] ACPI : EC : non-query interrupt received, switching to
> > > interrupt mode
> > > [ 17.245665] ACPI: EC : missing confirmations, switch off interrupt mode
> >
> > this is not a grub bug, its an kernel bug
> >
> > there are two simple options to go:
> >    - get a bios upgrade
>
> I already got a bios upgrade several days ado.
> >    - get a kernel upgrade, v2.6.28 should have solved the problem
> I am a very novice in Debian and in Linux. How can I do it?

ok .. first you need to know the perfect mailing list for debian
beginners is debian-user.

you can get some newer kernels:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel

how to install them with a live cd.. please ask at debian-users

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Florian Reitmeir