Ubuntu
acpi package

  1. Bug #307645
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 307645

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mwfontes (mwfontes) wrote :

[SOLVED] ATTENTION ALL LINUX MINT USERS!!!

I have installed Linux Mint Helena (and Ubuntu Karmic) and it used to always freeze!

It was driving me crazy. Read a lot of posts, a lot of "maybes" until I found out the problem and I'm here now, using my "Helena".

The problem affects only laptops, which, I don't know why, freezes if you let acpi (power management) activated. Deactivate it and you'll be good to go.

To do this, I used my ubuntu 9.04 live cd and edited my /boot/grub/grub.cfg file. At the end of the line that should look like this:

linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-15-generic root=UUID=69e4ed90-7dfe-417d-980c-5afe3818e27f ro quiet splash

i changed to:

linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-15-generic root=UUID=69e4ed90-7dfe-417d-980c-5afe3818e27f ro quiet splash acpi=off

And that's it!

Reboot and enjoy!

Cheers!