Unsupported Bios Version Acer 5050

[Melvin Garcia]

Binary package hint: grub2

Karmic Alpha 6
X86_64
Grub2 (1.97 beta 2)

I'm not really sure if this is a bug but I'll report this just because it says so and because I don't know were else to report this (if there is any other place to report it):

Sep 20 15:55:38 melvin-laptop kernel: [ 23.014044] acerhdf: unknown (unsupported) BIOS version Acer, inc./Aspire 5050 /v1.3103, please report, aborting!

[QQ321 (qq321-mail)]

Same Warning on Acer Aspire 5580

[ 10.191725] acerhdf: unknown (unsupported) BIOS version Acer/Aspire 5580 /v1.3508, please report, aborting!

[Karunadheera (karunadheera)]

Same warning on Acer Aspire 5738Z.

acerhdf: unknown (unsupported) BIOS version Acer /Aspire 5738 /V1.16. , please report, aborting!

[Dwayne H (dwayne-launchpad)]

Similar message on Acer Aspire 5100, bios version 3.13.

[Melvin Garcia (virtualspectre8)]

Does Karmic boot faster than Jaunty in your laptops? In mine (5050) is very slow. Jaunty flies compared with Karmic. I hope they fix this thing.

I'm thinking about a bios upgrade, maybe a newer bios version is supported.

[Bryan Wu (cooloney)]

Can you confirm this issue exists with the most recent Karmic Koala 9.10 Alpha release? ISO CD images are available at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/ . If the issue remains with Karmic it would be great to then also test the latest upstream mainline kernel available. This will allow additional upstream developers to examine this issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Thanks in advance.

[nicky.7 (nickkkk7)]

It happens the same to me with Acer 5715z with the latest karmic Kernel. I could not try the latest upstream mainline kernel because of some errors in installing it.

[Melvin Garcia (virtualspectre8)]

With Karmic fully updated and Grub 1.97 beta 3 the same problem persists.

[Melvin Garcia (virtualspectre8)]

I was reading Jono Bacon's blog this morning. He was talking about the boot experience and how to report bugs on this topic so I decided to take a pic of my screen just like he said and here a the messages my PC is throwing at me.

More info at his blog:
http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/10/02/ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala-beta-released-testers-needed/

I hope this helps you fix this and thank you!

[Rudi (cinszani)]

Have same problem with Acer Aspire 6530G :(

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 435958, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.