Ok so an update on this. Thanks alot for the help with this :) So I took the advice and disabled ACPI in the BIOS. Wouldnt boot, but then my research showed adding acpi=off into the grub boot line made it get into init. The init is messy, with messages like fatal error cant find battery (battery.ko) twice, and I no longer get times in my var kernel log outputs. It may very well be issues I can ignore but it just doesnt feel right.
So I joined the acpi kernel list and reported the issue. I just hope Andrew Morton is wrong and I get a patch fixing this bug :) Ive since learnt that Intel has a direct bug line for ACPI issues and VIA doesnt. VIA is apparently known for ACPI dramas. It is somewhat comforting to be able to deflect my emotions away from Linux and onto that evil company called Via!! I hope this is resolved because then atleast if a fix comes Ive done something little that will prevent others with the same hardware having problems into the future. -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
