I'm not sure what exactly it does. Although as noted above, it affected other things on my system like the volume control buttons becoming erratic. I removed the noirq parameter, and am just living with the boot freezing for now.
> Maybe this in not the right place to ask... in that case please forgive > me. > But can anybody explain or point to some place where acpi=noirq is > explained. > I just don't want to exchange a problem for another >>From http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt > acpi=noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing > but what this really mean? > > -- > System freezes during boot, unless I hold a key down > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272247 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- System freezes during boot, unless I hold a key down https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272247 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