Very clarifying. Thanks. I was actually able to run Ubuntu 8.10 on my Acer laptop before selling it and purchasing a Compaq, on which Ubuntu runs flawlessly. Regards
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Ivan S. Zapreev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Just a small summary of my experience with the ACPI problems and Acer. > > This seems to be a DSDT and Linux-kernel bug. I have recently tried > Ubuntu 8.04, Open SUSE 10.2, Fedora 10 and some other less known > distribution on my Acer Aspire 3050. They all have the same problem, NO > booting with ACPI. In case ACPI is off the system boots but there is no > wireless or wired Internet and no power down. I am not even mentioning > suspend and hibernate. > > Now, from all I've read this seems to be caused by incorrect DSDT tables > supplied by the vendor (Acer). I've also found a project that presumably > supplies fixed DSDT tables for some systems: > http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/ > > Another thing, it seems that all the current Main stream Linux > distributions use the same flawed kernel. I.e. a kernel that somehow > can not overcome problems in the DSDT table or may be the DSDT table > supplied with the kernel is wrong or smth. I myself have no clue. Still, > people claim that they could run Ubuntu 7.10 on Acer with no problems so > it seems to be a regression bug. > > I hope someone takes care of this bug, because I thinks it's been around > a year since things went wrong .... it is about time some one fixes it! > > PS: I do not think I've added smth new, but still, it is a small summary > of my experience. > > -- > Live CD won't install on Acer Aspire 3050-1922 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191871 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- Nelson Álvarez 56 - 63 - 241 346 Home 56 - 9 - 412 16 00 Mobile 56 - 63 - 210 002 School Home address: Corvi 7, 4041, Valdivia, Chile -- Live CD won't install on Acer Aspire 3050-1922 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/191871 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
