Tried a recently downloaded karmic .iso, and it too seems to have this problem. And that this was apparently/somehow fixed in the earlier versions of 2.6.32 in Alpha 3. Then came back when Beta 1's kernel came out.
-- Kernel 2.6.32-17-generic won't boot without acpi=off on eMachine eM250 netbook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/546645 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs