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margin-top: 5px; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: 5px; "> <div class="a3s aXjCH m161095ddd493e224" id=":94" style="overflow: hidden;">I have two Lenovo ideapad laptops: Lenovo 3000 N200 with 4GB RAM and Lenovo Z570 with 8GB RAM. <br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "> I am currently dual booting Z570 with Lubuntu 16.04.3 and Windows 10 Pro 1709 Insider Preview. <br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "> As soon as my N200 is repaired, I plan to dual boot with Lubuntu 16.04.3 and Windows 8.1 Pro. <br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "> (I gave up on Windows 10 because it runs very slow with only 4GB RAM).<br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "> <br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "> Off and on, I get this error on Z570 <br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "> <br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "> acer_wmi: Unsupported machine has AMW0_GUID1, unable to load<br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "> <br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "> 1) My initial Lubuntu install with msdos partitions and no EFI System partition failed with this error.<br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "> 2) My second Lubuntu install (after re-installing Windows) with GPT partitions including EFI System succeeded.<br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "> But after two (or three?) automatic "Software Updater" sessions, it again failed with this error.<br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "> A confusing factor is that Windows Insider Preview kept resetting my clock to London time (I'm in Los Angeles time zone).<br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "> This broke Cygwin make command, and forced me to re-install Cygwin.<br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "> <br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "> According to Torvalds GitHub source for acer_wmi.c, N200 is on a quirks list of machines that is allowed to use Acer driver.<br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "> Z570 is not on the list, and Torvalds asks that no more Lenovo machines be added to the list.<br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "> So I need to know:<br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "> Is there a lenovo_wmi driver?<br style="direction: ltr; font-size: 12.8px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "> Was Z570 added to quirks list? If so, is it still on the quirks list?</div> </div> Should I try to re-install Lubuntu 16?<br> <p></p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><br> </p> <div id="Signature"> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,"EmojiFont","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols; font-size: 12pt;"> Dick McCullough<br> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>