Comment 44 for bug 677633

Everyone affected by that issue - please, click on the "This bug affects 10 people, but not you" link at the top of the page - that will give a better light on the real issue importance.
Low importance issues most probably will not get any attention at all.

Regarding the custom kernel: the latest 2.6.37 kernel doesn't work neither. Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no point to recompile the kernel, if there is an issue inside the kernel code, which needs to be fixed to work with this laptop ACPI functions.

Another thing: "noapic acpi=off" works only with Ubuntu 10.10 USB stick and it hangs the system on both 2.6.32 & 2.6.37 kernels at Debian Mint.