Sony Vaio VGN-N31S (Hardy Instal Failed)

[victor9098]

Hi All,

Just thought I would post for anyone else with the same laptop.

I have used both 7.04 & 7.10 on this machine without any trouble, Ubuntu has been dream, compiz and everything else has worked perfectly.

But sadly I have not been able to upgrade to 8.04 Hardy Heron, there seems to be a problem with my 'ACPI', the problem has been filed at launchpad and you can get full details here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/222864

Really hope this is sorted soon! On the plus side on my 3 year old Toshiba Equium EA60-199 8.04 installed first time. Compiz does not work but that is not an issue as everything else seems to be working fine.

[ohnonotagain69]

This is probably too late for you now...but for others out there waiting for answers that never come, try installing with the -noacpi switch, then switching it back on again once everything works fine.

To turn ACPI back on, just edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst

ie.

title Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-21-generic acpi=off noapic nolapic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-21-generic root=blah ro quiet splash acpi=off noapic nolapic
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-21-generic

Delete bits in bold.

Hope this helps...