Comment 295 for bug 272247

Same issue here, unfortunately.

My laptop is plugged in 99% of the time, and is almost always plugged in
while booting. After reading this email, I unplugged it, and rebooted.
The issue is still there for me when running on battery power. There's a
good chance that this was never fixed properly, as this was the first
time that I rebooted on battery power since reporting that it was fixed
for me.

I didn't have the problem with the system locking up as noted below,
once booted everything works fine.

SRElysian wrote:
> I just noticed something I haven't before.. I may have previously stated
> that the new kernels being used in Jaunty fix the issue, but for the
> first time in a very long time I booted my laptop via battery instead of
> the power cord and it went back to it's same old shenanigans. I was
> forced to use the shift key to boot the system, then it locked up
> (though later I found the lockup was due to a custom setting I was using
> for my Intuos3 tablet, while the tablet was not connected).
>
> I think I will look into this custom DSDT file and see if it resolves
> the issue for Jaunty as well. This is quite upsetting though, if what
> 67GTA says is true, this problem is not going to go away for a while.
> Just when we think Linux is becoming easier to use and thus more widely
> accepted, someone throws a handful of nails under our wheels. :/
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