Tried ubuntu 10.10 big problem

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On an old g533 ECS laptop centrino 1.6ghz 1gb ran from cd first to test driver compatability and all was good except 1 epic huge problem

If i run on ac power the thing will go into suspend mode within 20 seconds and basically crash/never come out of it.. epic fail.

The battery is now dead so i cant run it anymore. It will boot onto the desktop but after 20s it goes into sleep mode/failmode.

i edited all the power settings i could find to all on, but that changed nothing.

i have a very limited bios there is 1 option to turn on or off advanced power saving.

im guessing that its missed a driver while installing? or its a mix of trial and error until its on off or however it was installed. flat battery now so screwed, should probably just get a new netbook and take some pleasure from smashing the damn thing to death
 
I'm not sure on a solution as i'm not sure what power saving policies Ubuntu enable but you could charge the netbook while the machine isn't switched on then run it off the battery while you try to fix the problem.

You could try disabling all laptop features, or in an extreme case you could use synaptic to uninstall anything laptop related then install the components one by one until you find what service is crashing it.

Good luck!
 
Ive had a google and there is a heck of a lot about this and/or similar issues with some laptops. Im a novice at Linux im not sure i can be arsed to even have a play at this as its a lot of hard work and incredibly "have a play" as you suggested.

I tired the 10.4 version as i read that was stable but it wouldnt even run from CD :( thats finally pushed me over the "cant be arsed" boundary
 
If it's an old laptop I would strongly suggest you give PCLinuxOS a bash. It's very good at handling old problematic hardware whilst still being a user friendly distro. I would suggest either the LXDE or XFCE environments for an older laptop as they're more lightweight, but if you're more comfortable with using Gnome or KDE then give them a go too.

LXDE: http://debian.ethz.ch/mirror/pclinuxos/live-cd/pclinuxos-lxde-2010.12.iso
XFCE: http://debian.ethz.ch/mirror/pclinuxos/live-cd/pclinuxos-phoenix-xfce-2010.12.iso
 
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