x86 - Load kernel with pci=bios hpet=disable nohz=off

x86 - Load kernel with acpi=force irqpoll

else

x86 - Load kernel with nohz=off

x86_64 - Load kernel with nohz=off

x86 - Load kernel with acpi=force irqpoll
x86_64 - Load kernel with nohz=off

Managed to get pendriver working but am stuck as to how to get the network card working? This is my test as I hvae never tried to install linux on anything before but have been told it will run on my R20 REALLY well!!
Any help?
As Basic as poss please.

It is only possible to install Ubuntu Hardy Heron on this laptop with the text/alternative cd. You then have to install the propriatory ATI drivers on the command line. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/SamsungR20 for details of how to install.

Note:
If needed, aticonfig is a tool provided by the drivers that can configure your xorg.conf for you

Have tried several distro. Mostly display problem:

• Ubuntu 7.10 cannot display
• Fedora 8 cannot start X

The only version working is Knoppix 5.1

Load kernel with option pci=nommconf

Mandriva 2008 LiveCD (acpi=off) demonstrates how for the (previously problematic) ATI drivers have come. This makes the R20 a perfect linux machine.

I have tested this laptop here in Europe (Basque Country) with different distros like Mandriva, Kubuntu... and the only one that has worked fine in the configuration and X Window system has been Sabayon Linux, although there is a problem with the audio and goes very slowly with Firefox. Lots of problems with this laptop and the ATI driver.

I've had so many problems with this, and I quite regret buying it. First of all, build quality is horrible. Lot's of stuff jutting out everywhere, whis is annoying when you carry it in a bag. The CD drive is already beginning to rattle.

Most of the distros I tried didn't even want to boot because they couldn't configure graphics (Sabayon was an exception). Finally got Ubuntu alternative to install and managed to install fglrx manually. It mostly suspends to ram, but cannot always wake up. Sometimes it crashes completely. Battery time in Linux is max 1 hr 20 minutes! No Compiz etc

Yes, I got Fedora 7 running on it in the end. To begin with I had no GUI because ATI's fglrx module did not support FC7, but now it does. Also, if you want wireless then you want the 2.6.21.1-3.194-fc7 kernel release, not the more recent 2.6.22.1-27.fc7, because the Madwifi module does not work with the latter.

I agree with you, Vista is absolutely diabolical running on this laptop, quite the very worst, slowest, easy-to-crash computer experience I have ever had, ever.
I am very glad to say that Linux works much, much better - Vista uses up almost 400megs of memory for instance and Linux needs less than 300.

To install Linux on this laptop but retain the option to co-boot into Vista (although I don't know why you'd want to!), set the partition size of the 'C' drive to the smallest possible (25 gigs) when you first start up the laptop. Samsung's setup software create another D partition in the remaining disk space.

Then completely remove the D drive - i.e unallocate the partition - from the Disk Manager in Vista. This should provide just enough space for Linux to install itself. I used a bootable Fedora 7 DVD.

Hi,

We have FC7 or 8 don't you think 3 is a bit old anyway?

I am sure 7 or higher will do fine.
I am at moment installing Opensuse 10.2 on it. bloody Vista is load of CRAP

The R20 also comes in another configuration with a Celeron M 1.8Ghz processor. I have been trying to install Fedora Core 3 on this. This does not work because it cannot locate the R20's hard drive. Presumably therefore the hard drive drivers for this model are not present in older Fedora distributions. Of course, the next thing I will try is to obtain and install a more recent version of Fedora such as Core 7.
Bottom line - the R20 may not work with older Linux distributions unless you can find the relevant hard drive drivers (I was trying Fedora Core 3 since that is the specified host environment for developing applications for an embedded Linux box I am using)