Jean-Pierre van Riel, given you have an outdated BIOS, you would want to update that first to see if this is resolved for your computer model. If you find an issue on the latest BIOS, then it will help immensely if you filed a new report via a terminal:
ubuntu-bug linux
Please feel free to subscribe me to it.
Also, there is no wide impact regarding this. This issue (correlated to a computer firmware bug, not a bug in Ubuntu/linux) affects one model of computer, from one manufacturer (out of the hundreds of computer models, and tens of manufacturers).
Jean-Pierre van Riel, given you have an outdated BIOS, you would want to update that first to see if this is resolved for your computer model. If you find an issue on the latest BIOS, then it will help immensely if you filed a new report via a terminal:
ubuntu-bug linux
Please feel free to subscribe me to it.
Also, there is no wide impact regarding this. This issue (correlated to a computer firmware bug, not a bug in Ubuntu/linux) affects one model of computer, from one manufacturer (out of the hundreds of computer models, and tens of manufacturers).