On 12 June 2010 19:09, Mike Evans <mike at tandem.f9.co.uk> wrote: > Mike it be a need for the noapic flag or something like that. My laptop > hits that problem. I had it with Fedora first and now I need it with > ubuntu. > > MikeE > I think but only time will tell that acpi=off may have fixed the problem. Thanks Peter.