Mint 6 starts and basically works but the display is sluggish.

Upon adjustment of screen brightness the mouse pointer disappears and does not return after logout/login. Full reboot is necessary to restore display of pointer. Same problem exists in Ubuntu 8.10 and Debian 5 "Lenny". Fedora-based Fuduntu 14 doesn't have this problem and although it runs as slowly as 6 & newer Mints, it's the only distro that works completely on this hardware.

a workaround is to adjust the brightness prior to booting Mint 6, while on OS selection screen. Or just use Fuduntu 14.

Latitude x200 is analogous to Gateway 200STM. Chipset is Intel 830m with integrated VGA.