To sum up, I am using "noapic irqpoll" as my default boot options. Works: CDROM, network, battery meter, cpu scaling. Broken: sound, suspend-to-RAM, external display.
I have not tried "dist-upgrade" with the installation I am using now, because that's what broke it last time. I have testing notes on different parameters, to sum them up: Ubuntu Dapper Flight 6 i386 Install CDROM Compared to default parameter used in isolinux.cfg: - Without any parameters: complete freeze on "Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. " - With "noapic", boots past "booting the kernel", but does not find CDROM or network (my notes below. I will only attach photos if they are needed) - With "noapic irqpoll" boots and finds peripherals - "nolapic" - complete freeze - I was using pci=noapci before, but don't know if it had any effect 0819 Booted from cd, boot menu: - "F6 Other Options": added "noapic" Computer booted past the "booting the kernel. " Some text was briefly displayed (PICTURE 0821), written by hand: "PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:1c.0", similar for 8, 9. "vt: argh, driver_data is NULL !" "Trying to enable the frame buffer..." "INFO: kbd-mode: setting console mode to unicode" "[!] Choose language" was displayed. - English "[!] Choose language" "Choose your location:" - other: Finland Jumped to Finland by pressing "F" a couple of times "[!] Select a keyboard layout" (Default is American English, bug already filed) - "Select from full keyboard list", "Finnish" (press F to jump to Finnish) 0826 "[!!] Detect and mount CDROM" "No common CD-ROM drive was detected. " (PICTURE 0827) This is related to boot paramaters as described in http://www.iki.fi/karvinen/acer_travelmate_3004wtmi_with_linux_notes.html Alt-ctrl-F4 (PICTURE 0828) Rebooting with alt-ctrl-del... 0829 boot from "Flight 6 i386 installer" F6, "nolapic", enter Freeze on "booting the kernel. " Shut down with 5 s press on power button. Would you like me to try the current installation also with "noapic nolapic pci=noacpi irqpoll"? As it has "noapic irqpoll" in it, it will probably work. Do you want some logs about it? -- [dapper] Soft lockup related to yenta IRQ handler https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/38856 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
