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I wouldn't be surprised you're right on about the ACPI issues.  That's 
discussed a lot on the web wrt this family of notebooks.

Jim.
Dow Hurst wrote:

>Jim,
>You should bother for the better graphics, especially if you have Nvidia 
>graphics.  What type of graphics came in the Presario?  Is it ATI, 
>Intel, or Nvidia?  If you have ACPI issues such as not being able to 
>shutdown by software command or if suspend to disk won't work correctly, 
>then there are some ACPI fixes in newer kernels that might help.  
>Several HP laptops were affected by some changes in the ACPI code so 
>9.3's default kernel may or may not work for you.  I am running SUSE 
>10.1 with a special ACPI fixed kernel from the main suse ftp repository 
>posted by Thomas Renninger.  He is a SUSE employee and works on ACPI 
>related issuse for Novell/Suse.  This fix is for some systems that under 
>the normal 2.6.13 kernel would not turn off after the shutdown command 
>finished.  You'd have to press and hold the power button to get the 
>system to shutdown.  Look on the GaTech suse repository for the people 
>section for trenn.  Your initial install problems lead me to think you 
>have a basic underlying ACPI issue.
>Dow
>
>  
>



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