Hello there,

I've been using slack for some time but then i had to change my laptop. now, after and even during installation the whole system could simply freeze. 100% freeze, no reaction to keyb & mouse, the little capslock dial doesnt light up... now i suspect that this has something to do with... bad interrupt handling? the system hangs up when the laptop (not the OS) signalises low battery. also, connecting the lappy to ac causes a freeze.

any ideas about this? everything works fine on gentoo 2006.0 (stage3, genkernel). also, from time to time slackware would slow down incredibly... the wierd thing is that ps shows bad times - processes which have been running for, say, 1 minute have like 10 secs under TIME.

i want to go back to slackware..! would dl'ing 10.2 help? thats a lot of dl'ing (considering my connection speed)

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okay this is what i did just a minute ago:

* booted the gentoo 2005.1 minimal cd. i ran mke2fs -j /dev/hda4 .. it was almost INSTANT - writing ide tables (301) took about 15 seconds. eveeything fine.
* booted slackware 10.1 instllation cd. everything seems to be ok, it works fairly fast. i run the same command - mke2fs -j /dev/hda4. it starts just as fast as on gentoo, but stops on 50-60 inode table and. sure it's still working but its 1 table per 5 minutes! during that the laptop is simply unusable. after pressing alt+f2 i had to wait almost a minute for the new console to appear. i pressed enter. then there was another minute of waiting.. what the hell?! thats not how its supposed to work...

What's the make and model of said laptop?

Which kernel are you booting the slackware install with.

What and how old is the laptop

Its a Toshiba Satellite M70.

I've booted with both bare.i and bareacpi.i - they dont seem to have any effect whatsoever. :/