When Randall Kennedy blogged about his 5-day long "30-day Ubuntu Plunge", having this ACPI bug as the definitive reason to leave Ubuntu the same day (http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisedesktop/archives/2007/11/the_ubuntu_plun_4.html), Scott James Remnant informingly wrote this comment to the post:
>We do obviously have quite a large number of laptops in our testing centre, >and perform regular testing throughout the development cycle on this hardware. > >Unfortunately our expertise is limited to those vendors that are willing to >work with us to certify their hardware. This doesn't just mean the marque on >the lid, but necessarily includes the manufacturers of most of the major >components of the machine. > >If you are interested, please e-mail me so that we can at least get some >detailed information about your problem machines so that we at least know what >doesn't work -- it may be that there's some component there that we don't >test, or are unable to. > >(I'm going to randomly guess, with only the information in your articles, that >the problem is because both laptops have nVidia graphics cards. Unfortunately >only Intel and ATI currently provide the necessary resources to Linux >developers to support their hardware; nVidia prefer to maintain their drivers >themselves. The fact that your failure mode is a black screen supports the >notion that it is their closed-source driver failing to resume, since you >clearly have no video.) > >The rigours of a time-based release cycle mean that sometimes we have to >accept regressions outside of our supported/certified harware set to ensure >that the release can be made on time. To counter this, we have regular "Long >Term Support" releases that have these kinds of problems more specifically >targeted -- although again, we can still only target issues that we are able >to fix; if a hardware vendor will not work with us, then there is little that >we can do. >Posted by: Scott James Remnant at November 11, 2007 10:27 PM -- [GUTSY] ACPI: battery state reporting errors since 2.6.22-9 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/129388 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
