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>On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 20:07, Eric J.Feldhusen wrote:
>  > Just curious, has anyone tried a NV170? With any of the 4.x or 5.0?
>
>I'm trying to install 5.0 on a NV105, not sure if that's similar to the
>NV170.
>
>It's not going so well at the moment, OS is installed and boots. But my
>custom kernel won't bring up the fxp interface even though it works with
>the Generic config and I can't get the touchpad to work at all ATM. I
>saw somewhere that it should work in current. Oh, and I get a whole
>bunch of ACPI errors.
>
>For some reason I had to install from CD because with floppies it just
>dies with a fatal trap 9, That's both the 4.8 and the 5.0 floppies, also
>had no luck with the 4.7 CD.

Sounds like my experience with freebsd/redhat/mandrake on my nv170. 
So far, the only operating system I can get running is WinXP. But I'm 
still trying with freebsd and if I can't get that to work, I'll try 
the latest redhat/mandrake/gentoo releases.