eeepc acpi in linux mint Isadora(or newer ubuntu>= 9)

[Pasha]

I have an asus eeepc 1005ha and have installed Linux mint 9 isadora on it. most of everything works, but i am unable to configure certain sound problems(more later) and i can't figure out how to get acpi working right. I previously had ubuntu 9.04 and 10.something on it and had the same problems. there is a download labeled eee-acpi that doesn't work on newer versions of ubuntu (or mint) because acpi-support-base is not available for these newer versions. according to a bug report, there were ways of fixing it so that the eee-acpi was no longer needed, but they involved installing kernel modules that i don't see from synaptic. I really want to get this working so that i can use a hotkey(preferably the button built for that purpose) to turn of the trackpad, and i also want to be able to use the hotkeys for sound.

about sound: my system is using pulse audio, and that works for earphones, speakers, and external microphone, but not for internal microphone, and it does not automatically switch to earphones when they are plugged in. I have to tell it to. however, when i use the gnome program Aplications->Sound & Video->Sound Recorder, it has no trouble hearing sound from the front mic(something which didn't happen in ubuntu) i really don't know what i need to do for either of these problems but any answers(even difficult ones like building a new kernel) would be welcome I have successfully compiled a working kernel that i used for ubuntu 9.04 to get network support, but that didn't save my acpi or sound problems.
thanks in advance

[hatebreed]

have you tried to turn acpi off? I know this sounds like the opposite of what you want to do but I have a couple of systems where I have to turn off acpi to get everything to work correctly. I put the acpi=off in the kernel line of grub. It would only take a second to try it by typing e on the menu line of grub and adding it to the kernel line then hit ctrl x to boot and see if it helps or not.

[Pasha]

thanks for the tip, but it didn't work. The only difference is that cpu scailing doesn't work, and certain icons look different