Laptop not working well with 10.10 on battery

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Ever since 10.10 64 bit it seems my asus k50id locks up whenever i try to boot using my battery, or whenever i unplug my power and switch to battery it freezes. This never happened in 10.04, is there any possible way i can solve this or is it just a bug for now? oddly enough, i can login with safemode but it usually locks up after 1-5 minutes. this is a major problem because i use my laptop for writing notes in school and now this renders my laptop completely useless. please help this is urgent. thanks!

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[akoskm]

Did you choose any extra option before you started the installation, like

acpi=off

?

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i'm pretty sure i didn't, i installed using the alternate text installer though

[LuisitoRito]

I have BIG problem with the battery too... check http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1595985... This look like a big problem... still no solution... except come back to 10.04

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I'm about to reinstall 10.10 just to see if i did anything after installing that caused it to mess up.. will post back with results

EDIT: when i try the live CD the same thing happens, when the startup sound just loops over and over and it freezes.. so it wasn't something i did. it must be a bug, i'll try the 10.04 statup disk..

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Just tried the 10.04 live CD and it works perfectly, so obviously it isn't the physical battery. This should be fixed immediately!

[toph]

Hi.

It seems like this is a pretty big problem. I am sure there are other threads out there about the same issue.

[toph]

I tried this and it worked for me. I can now boot from battery.

http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2010/05/...up-workaround/

I hope it works for some of you.

Chris

[spantch101]

sad this hasnt been figured out yet. i am using an asus k50idx2 and i have the exact same problem, has anyone found a workaround that doesn't require downgrading the OS the link above is "not found".... any response would be great