Bios not recognised during boot. flagged with message to report.

[executorvs]

Binary package hint: hal

using clean install of karmic with updates as of 11:30 central USA 9/28/09.
Acer Aspire Timeline 5810TZ-4274

dmesg outputs:
[ 15.860575] acerhdf: Acer Aspire One Fan driver, v.0.5.16
[ 15.860581] acerhdf: unknown (unsupported) BIOS version Acer/Aspire 5810T/V1.23, please report, aborting!

there are several issues which I'm trying to report to relevant packages
including failure to map/build profile for DVI port, inability to mount DVDs or CDs, and inability to adjust screen brightness.

all bugs present in jaunty as well.
if incorrect package feel free to redirect.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 29 00:03:05 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: hal 0.5.13-1ubuntu7
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: hal
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686