If one day you experience this problem on Acer notebook you have, here’s how to fix error “WMI-Acer: Unable to detect available WMID devices” on the Ubuntu Netbook Remix operating system and Ubuntu-based netbooks other.
An error occurred in several types, or even all types produced Acer’s netbook, including Acer Aspire One or the Acer eMachines, where the error occurred after you had upadate system.
Testing for this bug using the operating system 1.6 and Easy Peasy Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10:04 LTS (Lucid Lynx). After the installation process is complete, not encountered a problem and everything worked. However, when users update their system and rebooting the system, this problem will arise.
Error “WMI-Acer: Unable to detect available WMID devices” will cause damage to the Ubuntu boot splash screen. So, if you include a person who liked the Ubuntu boot splash on your netbook, please follow these steps to correct these errors.
- Press ALT + F2 key combination to display dialog “Run Application”;
- In the dialog “Run Application” is displayed, make sure you tick the option “Run in terminal”;
- Then type or paste the following command line: gksu-WMI acer blacklist echo | sudo tee-a / etc / modprobe.d / blacklist-acer-wmi.conf
- Click the “Run” to run the command.
After that, the terminal window will appear and you will be prompted to enter a password. Please enter the password and press Enter, a moment later the terminal window will be closed automatically.
Did that fix this problem? and the answer is: this is going to blacklist acer-WMI and you will not see anymore error “WMI-Acer: Unable to detect available WMID devices.” From this moment the notebook will run as usual and you still will see a nice boot splash.
Good luck …
