Comment 35 for bug 443318

On my Acer Aspire 1502 laptop running as 64 bit, I have had the 'freeze' problem for about 6-9 months, since one of the daily/weekly software patches. It became more serious when I upgraded from 8.04 to 9.10.
On my old desktop which was quite stable when running Ubuntu 8.04lts it froze very frequently after upgrading to 9.10. I changed to Kubuntu and this has improved it a little but there is still instability. After starting the system with the logo .loaded and before I could log-in, the system froze, therefore is it a problem with the kernal? Running from the 'live CD' improves the stability but it is still a problem. Has anyone diagnosed the problem and produced a solution yet?