Compaq Presario f750US

[RageLtMan]

i just picked up this laptop a few days ago, great machine a pair of 1.9G 64 bit cores, a gig of ram, and something wrong with the way BT sees ACPI on these machines. If on AC power, it needs a kick in the ass to boot (live requires a text boot with a press of the power button during the boot process, real install requires the same thing). On battery power, you have to boot with noapic and acpi=off. Yes, it works, but you dont know how much battery power you have left, and it eats battery like a beast.
other distributions seem to work with this ACPI implementation, what do we need to change to fix that? Thanks

[RageLtMan]

It gets better, despite having an nv610 it can't run x after nvidia-xconf, or x-conf at all actually. Installing the nvidia.lzm causes the screen to go blank when i try to startx and the machine just locks up hardcore. Anyone else seen this?

[RageLtMan]

the graphics driver thing can be resolved by installing the nvidia linux driver, compiz still won't work, but you get your resolution. The chipset however, STILL refuses to work :(. ACPI is all messed up, the NIC won't work either...