Comment 25 for bug 518938

Despite my initially optimistic comment before, I was unable to find a version of Ubuntu that was stable on my Acer AS7740-5691, which uses the HM55 chipset, until I installed 10.4 with kernel 2.6.34-020634rc6, which has been up continuously for the six days since I installed it, so there's reason to hope.

Before trying this setup, I tried the following amd64 versions (I didn't keep a detailed list of all of them; there were quite a few). All were more or less unstable and prone to display freezes.

Various incarnations of 9.10 with various 2.6.32 and 2.6.33 kernels. The same, with the X edgers package also installed. Right off the disk, 10.4 was especially unstable, usually failing to survive for one hour of interactive use, and 2.6.33-02063303 was just as bad.

Is this result typical? If so, waiting for Fedora in the hopes that its 2.6.33 kernel will solve the problem might not be a good idea.

I haven't tested the wireless yet -- I don't need it at home and it's not permitted at work.