Installation Help - BIOS problems

[AlphaB]

Hello,

I'm completely new to the ubuntu community and when I try to install ubuntu after choosing a language a message appears that says:

Your BIOS does not provide ACPI_PS objects in a way that Linux understands. Please report this to the Linux ACPI maintainers and complain to your BIOS vendor.

And a command line appears, which I know nothing about. So my questions are

Is there any way to get around this and still have ubuntu work correctly?
Is there any way to modify/upgrade my BIOS or Linux in such a way that ubuntu will run?
What ACPI_PS objects and what questions/comments should I have when contacting my BIOS vendor?


I have an ASUS computer with an AMD athlon 64 bit processor. If any other specs are needed just let me know. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[AlphaB]

Ok so I've been doing some research and here's some places to start for anyone else having similar problems:

http://support.asus.com/technicaldocuments/technicaldocuments.aspx?no=547&SLanguage=en-us
http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/patch-flow.php
http://www.acpi.info/spec.htm

The specifications for ACPI are quite large, so it will probably take me a while to get through, but it sounds like it might be possible to update the OS kernel to get things working.