Martin
Thanks for that. Excellent. I found the option in the BIOS and it has sorted it.
Simon Royal
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Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 09:40:10 +0100 Subject: Re: [ALUG] Linux Mint Help Please From: mobile.sea@gmail.com To: simonroyal@live.co.uk
The slow down when running off battery is (from distant memory), a power saving function of those IBM 240s where it underclocks the processor to half it's original speed. I think it can be turned off in the BIOS. Many kernels ago there may have even been a driver in the kernel for this.
Rgds, Martin On Aug 8, 2010 12:30 AM, "Simon Royal" simonroyal@live.co.uk wrote:
Hi
Can someone offer some help on my problems using Linux Mint LXDE?
I installed it on my ThinkPad 240x via another machine. Initially I had some X problems, but I have resolved them. However, I am still getting some odd screen problems where it is drawing multiple icons and buttons - like the maximise/minimise buttons - all over the screen.
You can 'wipe' them off by moving a window, but they randomly pop up.
I found one other person who had this problem, however he was using Xubuntu. I too had the same problems under Xubuntu 9.10, but not under Ubuntu 10.04.
He resolved them by 'enabling display compositing' under xfce 4 settings manager, but Mint Linux uses LXDE and I cannot find anything in the menus for this.
He also mentioned that when running off battery the whole machine was slower - very noticeably slower - than when it is running off power adapter. Everyone else on the forum said this wasn't possible, but I have been experiencing this too.
I would really like to get over this graphics problem without switching distros as I like Mint.
Simon Royal
--- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal.
--- IBM ThinkPad 240X running Linux Mint 9 LXDE & Windows XP Home - Apple iBook G3 running OSX 10.4.
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