Installing on Compaq Presario SN1020SX (acpi problem?)

[sebastian heath <sebastian.heath@gmail.com>]

Hi,

     Firstly, if this is the wrong forum I apologize.

 I am installing 'testing' from the network install cd on a Compaq
Presario SN1020SX and I think I might be having power management
problems...

 When I first booted from the CD, the machine would uncompress linux
and the restart. So I booted with "linux26 acpi=off" and got through
the disk partitioning and as far as rebooting to complete
installation. In GRUB I have to append "acpi=off" to get the boot
process rolling otherwise the machine will restart right after
uncompressing linux. The problem is that now after the machine
abruptly shuts down after about a minute of use without not even a
hint of warning. I'm guessing this is a power management problem but
don't know that for sure.

 If anybody has any ideas of other boot-time options I can pass to the
kernel or any other ideas, I am all ears at this point.

 Thank you,

 Sebastian.