Power problems with Mint 10 LXDE on Compaq laptop

[DaTorbiera]

Hello,

I successfully installed Mint 10 LXDE on an old Compaq Armada E500. Got the system up and the battery charged from 0% to 100%.

I was quite happy with the result but then I came across the following bug:-
(1) When the system is up and I remove AC power, the whole thing freezes.
(2) When I boot on battery, the system freezes halfway the booting process.

I have searched other posts - one that talks about a similar issues is at

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... ry#p218304

but that was not resolved.

Thanks.

Michael

[nunol]

Have you tried to boot the system with different bootoptions? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions

Try "acpi=off".