Hi all,

I installed yoper 2.1.0-4 (the cover disk with this month's Linux User and Developer) on my Evo N400c yesterday. Everything appeared to go smoothly (I was extremely impressed with hardware detection and set-up on the whole), when I boot into it the wierdest thing happens...

After loading the WM (KDE or FVWM) everything loads fine (and very fast), but after a period of time between 20 seconds or a coulpa minutes the laptop crashes. This has all the symptoms of a catastrophic power loss (although it's plugged into the mains), i.e the screen and LEDs die and it's totaly unresponsive, however the connection and link lights on the RJ45 port are still on. When I subsequently press the power button again I get brief activity and then the machine goes back to the same state. At point I hold the power button down and force a complete shut down, but when I boot it up again there are no error messages about incorrectly unmounted partitions and there's no forced fsck, it just starts up as normal.

In conclusion i'm totally stumped, I've never seen anything like this before when I've installed any other distro and the compaq was happily running Debian before I put yoper on to have a play with.

If any of you gurus out there have any tips, tricks or general abuse for me I'd be exremely grateful!!

Ben