Acer 5920-6470 & Hardy - any reports?

Good morning!
I've downloaded x86 Hardy LiveCD and burned a couple of CD's. Used my Acer 5920, running 7.10, and used the Brasero application to burn the .iso. Brasero did an integrity check and said first disc was bad. Burned a second disc at 4X. Brasero said that one was bad too. Started the Acer up with second CD in the optical drive, got to the "Check disc for integrity" part, ran it, Ubuntu said disc was OK.
But when shutting down I got hundreds of errors, unable to read some kind of blocks. Finally held down the power button.
Took the same CD to an old desktop test PC. Ran the "Check disc for integrity" thing, it also said disc was fine, no weird error messages at shutdown. Installing right now.

Anyone tried installing 8.04 to an Acer 5920 of any version?

 

Hmmm, did the md5sum match?

 

Good morning, Thomas -
I've been downloading Ubuntu since Breezy, back when there was no "Check CD for Defects" option. The problem I ran into then, and discussed several times on the forums, is that you can find the md5 for the download no problem but running a checksum on the burned CD is a whole different story.
If you had a known good CD you could ask an md5 utility to create checksums, save those results, then run a second CD and ask the utility to verify. Problem is you have to have a known good CD. Catch-22.
With the advent of the "Check CD" option I stopped worrying about it.

But I got a little paranoid yesterday when Brasero failed the integrity check. Finally just burned the data in Home folder to a DVD and rolled the dice, using the LiveCD but partitioning manually to put / and /home in the correct partitions.

AFAICT, Hardy works very nicely on the 5920-6470.
- That stupid text message that came up every time during startup - "Unable to allocate something-or-another" - is gone.
- Sound, which was a problem with Feisty, works fine after you go into settings and enable everything; for some reason most of the devices had the red crosses and I had to click those off.
- I haven't checked wireless but don't expect trouble. The 4965 card worked in 7.10.
- Initial reports on Ubuntu Forums indicate increased functionality with Fn keys, hibernate, etc. but I haven't checked it out.

Since 8.04 is LTS I'm thinking about sticking with it for a while but each version of Ubuntu has leaped ahead of previous so don't know how long that'll last

 

i find problem with Hibernate and suspend.