I also have a Toshiba A75 and , the only option that I needed to add into the kernel boot line was "noapic", and it worked fine after that (for future reference).
I was seeing a "MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC" error after the GRUB menu, which tipped me off to the solution (that error doesn't show up anymore w/ noapic" -- Ubuntu 7.04 Freezes all the time in a Toshiba Satellite A75 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/109482 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs