@Adrian: thanks, it is enabled. I pointed this out to the Foxconn 
representatives.
@Ivar. thanks for the update. Let's see how it goes with your upgrade.

Now I found this very relevant (and related) bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/251338

Also this long thread:
http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869249

To put it straight, Foxconn has intentionally damaged the BIOS ACPI
functionality for Linux (by putting OS dependent if() switches mostly to
support windows, when the ACPI is a standard), and it took reverse
engineering to unveil that. ONLY after that was made PUBLIC they started
doing anything about this. They made me waste two months in a back and
forth of online communications where it was clear they were not even
reading what I was typing. When I pointed that out (politely, as whey
were asking me to "install" something that was mentioned all over the
place in my previous postings), they cut the communication with me, also
two months ago now.

This is serious, they are not following an industry standard, just
making sure their hardware works in Windows systems. Of course I'll stay
away from Foxconn in the future, and I recommend this to anyone running
Linux on their hardware. But I want this fixed, no so much for me, as
for the community at large. Let's see how it goes.

Cheers,
Leo

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BIOS does not provide ACPI _PSS objects in a way that Linux understands, 
Foxconn A7GM-S 2.0
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/363868
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