Is LINUX compatible with DELL Optiplex?

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#1

Well, this question is not about Install/Boot/Login strictly but ya its about RESTART OPTION IN LINUX.
i have Dell Optiplex Desktop and initially installed Ubuntu 8.10 on it. Had problems with restsarting Ubuntu 8.10. It used to hang up at the log out orange bar screen. But i experienced no problem with shut down demand and then restarting manually. so i posted this problem in ubuntu forums and launchpad. found it to be a bug which has not been solved till date. had to force hard start with the RESTART command.

Now i have installed Suse 11.0 on my system and i am experiencing the same problem with suse 11.0 install too. SHUT DOWN command seems to work fine but when i give a command for RESTART, it hangs the same way on the green log out screen at the end of white bar.
can any body suggest a remedy for this…
Please frenz i don’t want to remove linux from my computer, but keeping linux with this bug/ problem on my computer will definitely cause harm to my computer hardware with forced shut down…
PLEASE HELP…

#2

Have a look here
HCL/Desktops/Dell - openSUSE

#3

Sorry for a little correction in my post:
Its command in the third line(instead of demand)
and later

i have to force hard shut down when i give RESTART command, because it hangs (in the third line itself)

#4

Mine is Optiplex 330 n series desktop. Its not in the list mentioned on the link page.

#5

Something is mentioned about acpi issue in Optiplex 320 n series. I think 320 must be similar (if not same) to 330. Can someone explain me acpi issue… may be turning it off may solve the problem…???

#6

try the failsafe boot in the boot menu. That will normally have acpi=off in the boot arguments

if it works you can always try adding it to the default boot argument in /boot/grub/menu.lst

#7

Failsafe turns off other things, too. I would suggest booting normally but adding the following in the Boot Options below on the boot menu:

acpi=off

If that doesn’t work, try:

edd=off

Because it sounds like the lockup occurs when the bootsplash is reinvoked at shutdown.

And, does the problem occur if you issue a shutdown command from a terminal as root?, thus:

shutdown -h now