Well, I'm a lot happier now -- finally got a workable Linux installation on this Compaq Presario 2199US, and I'm using it now rather than rebooting into Windows to do mail.
But I still can't get ACPI working -- I have to pass "acpi=off" to the kernel (2.6.3-1.386) or the system hangs at boot. Not really a Good Thing not to have ACPI on a laptop. So can anyone help? The messages look something like this (copied by hand; I think the hang occurs before any rw mounting, so I can't take it from /var/log/messages).
Using local APIC timer interrupts Calibrating APIC timer ..... CPU clock speed is 2119.0988 MHz ..... host bus clock speed is 264.0988 MHz NET: Registered protocol family 16 EISA bus registered PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd876, last bus=2 PCI: Using configuration type 1 mtrr: v20 (20020519) ACPI: Sybsystem revision 20040116 Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. ACPI: IRQ9SCI: Level Trigger.
... and at that point there's nothing to do but power-cycle the machine.
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