Very hard now. Just installed new BIOS version. Took me 2 days, really
funny trying to get it installed on lInux. :)

Story is like this... 9.10 crashed after the updates from that day. The
first thing I did, was trying to install the wireless driver, which
started the KernelOops reaction. The wireless driver did install, was
working, KernelOops turned up and started to give many stacktraces. I
waited till it was done and rebooted. Managed to get in and started to
update 9.10. It was a partial upgrade, resulting again in a reboot
request, which I did. After those updates it started to give many crash
reports, all pointing to a serious kernel issue. This is the report
here. I still decided to reboot and my laptop went mentally insane. It
managed to get to the start up screen, which was way out of propertion
in it's graphics, to crash seconds after starting up the boot sequence.
I was not able to enter 9.10 any more, so I made a bunch of fresh
installs trying to get in. I managed partially after I installed start
up manager, starting up in recovery mode. It still crashed, but I
managed to get some info.

What I could read in the last line is that 9.10 found a unknown BIOS
version and crashed right after it. It also said something about being
unable to read udev. I tried to use break option, which did not work, so
I can not provide all info from starting up with the text mode. I
decided to check on the Acer website and found out that I was running on
a old BIOS version. I was running on v1.43, latest version is v1.45 for
the 5715z.

I have installed this one now, busy at this point with installing linux-
image-2.6.31-9-generic alpha 5, the same version I used to reinstall
before and I am not sure what will happen next after I reboot and
install the updates that made my laptop crash. I will send out a new
info text after I done with updating.

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[karmic] serious kernel issue acer 5715z
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430306
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