Ubuntu
acpi-support package

  1. Bug #59695
  2. Comment #79

Comment 79 for bug 59695

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Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen) wrote : Re: default value in power.sh potentially kills laptop disks

About the opinion of the official ubuntu developer.

Yes, it blindly follows what the bios specifies.
But, wait, Windows does not follow what the bios specifies.
The laptop is only supported for windows, hence, it is only tested with windows.

The _expected_ behavior of the hardware manufactoror is that likely that the bios values are ignored (just like they are in windows).

Like I said, stop the blame game. The truth is windows keeps the hard-drive in tact, and ubuntu trashes it.
It destroys it. This is a not a wishlist thingie. The laptop does not officially support linux. Its up to linux to decide wether to support the laptop.

But ubuntu installs WITHOUT A COMPLAINT. This is the real issue. If you want to punish the hardware manufacturor for setting up bad bios values, go ahead. But WARN THE USER.

At this point, not being able to install ubuntu on these laptops would be an _improvement_ of the situation.
Do you really want to kill the harddrives (including all the data loss) of these people because you don't want to solve a problem that is the fault of bad bios settings? Seriously. What ever happend to being a good samaritan. The fact that ubuntu _can_ solve this issue, puts _some_ of the responsibility on Ubuntu.