Aldi / Medion MD 9703 Notebook
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Picture of Medion MD 9703
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Installing linux on that laptops is like a kind of adventure. The problem had been a
not running network card. Linux didn't get the network adapter online, because of
IRQ conflicts.
"Device or resource busy" was the only message I got. But after adding some parameters
to the bootoptions of the linux kernel, all problems had been eleminated...
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Technical Data MD 9703
- 1.2 GHz PIII
- 14,1' TFT-XGA-Display
- DVD-Player/CD-Burner Combo
- 30-GB-Hitachi-HDD
- 256 MBytes RAM
- ATI-Mobility-Radeon-M6P
- Realtek 10/100Mbit-Fast-Ethernet-LAN
- 56K-Daten-Fax-Modem
- FireWire-IEEE-1394
- 16-Bit-3D-Stereo-Soundchip
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Solution
Add following parameters to the kernel boot options:
apic=on acpi=on pci=acpiirq
If you are using grub as bootloader you find the configfile in /boot/grub/menu.lst.
Add the parameters to the line
linuxkernel (hdx,x)/boot/linuximage ... apic=on acpi=on pci=acpiirq
Operating System: Suse Linux 8.1 with kernel version 2.4.19
I tried to use Redhat 7.3, but there had been the same problem. If you also have these problems with other
linux distributions, try to add the given parameters... If it won't work, build your own kernel an turn on
ACPI support and SMP support. I've heard from Redhat users, that this would work.
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