Comment 20 for bug 307477

I should also mention that I'm not an Ubuntu user, I'm on Gentoo. this is just the best place I've found for this particular hardware issue. It's not distro-spcific. probably a kernel issue.

Linux Distribution
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Gentoo Base System release 1.12.11.1

DMI Information
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Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
Product Name: G50VT

Kernel Information
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Kernel release: 2.6.30-gentoo-r2 (this was also happening in 2.6.27 and others)
Operating System: GNU/Linux
Architecture: i686
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 @ 2.26GHz
SMP Enabled: Yes