Michele.
This problem appears to be in other distros too. Its something wrong with the
linux kernel
I switched to arch linux... This problem is still there. But its not the
hardest thing to fix.
You need to find a custom DSDT file that is made for your laptop and tell the
kernel to use it.
I wa
I was able to get 8.10 to install and I had problems until I got my
custom DSDT put into the kernel. But 8.10 is so freaking slow... So
I ditched ubuntu and its shiny repos. :'( and i went to arch linux...
which asks me during install if i want to use a custom dsdt. :D So im
runnning arch now
I've been stuck using 7.10 on my Acer Aspire 5050-4570 because of the
same problem. 8.04 didn't work without acpi being off and that seemed to
make networking fail too. I was hoping that this problem would be
resolved when 8.10 came out. But it appears it didn't. Does any one know
if this bug is al