booting HP Pavilion tx1020 laptop requires noapic kernel option

this same laptop also was tested with Feisty Beta minimal CD with the same results.

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The final version of Feisty Fawn has now been released. Do you still have problems booting with it? Thanks in advance.

I downloaded ubuntu-7.04-desktop-amd64.iso couple of hours ago. Didn't boot right away, BUT...
thanks for the help menu, press f6 and added "noapic nolapic" and we're in business :-)
So far I got Live booted up nicely (including touchpad, haven't tested other features), install is running.
Will update later if installation doesn't boot.

Installation apparently went ok BUT...
U doesn't boot on it's own or on recovery mode (hangs on "Loading hardware drivers").
I don't know how to include "noapic nolapic" (if usable?) for booting. What exactly does it do anyway (good to know for possible other problems)?

You can pass the same options to the kernel by modifying the kernel boot options in the grub menu. You can learn about it at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto . Please let us know how that works out for you.

Ok, this peace of hardware has just been "Ubuntugraded". A simple matter in the end it seems, but for the benefit of others to come:
- on first boot edit grub's line for ubuntu: press e, select line that says kernel, press e and add noapic and boot
- when in ubuntu, edit grub menu.lst (as shown on instructions) and add noapic again to the end of kernel line on both normal and rescue modes.
This problem with tx1020 is now solved.
(I'll try to set up a page for all the other tweaks later somewhere)

I have the tx1003 and the difference seems to only be with the processor. tx1003 comes with TL-52.

The laptop would repeatedly hang on boot. I had to enter single user mode when using the live cd, unload the bcm43xx module and then it would boot.

Touchscreen works but is grossly uncalibrated. Wireless works with ndiswrapper and sound does not work.

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. Thanks again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.

Hello,

  I got a similar problem on my HP Pavilion dv6391 laptop (runs on a Turion X2 processor):
Feisty (AMD64) Live CD does freezes
When booting Feisty (AMD64) after being installed on my harddisk, it freezes at the "Loading hardware drivers..." stage, unless I run it with acpi=off

Gutsy Live CD works (I used the 23/7 CD image), yet also the installed version doesn't boot unless I use acpi=off option.

Note that with this option, some things don't work, like the system beep and the USB (inserting a flash disk causes nothing to happen, not even detected in dmesg output).
I think this dmesg error is related to USB:

[ 438.030260] irq 7: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
[ 438.030336]
[ 438.030336] Call Trace:
[ 438.030339] <IRQ> [<ffffffff8026aabe>] __report_bad_irq+0x1e/0x80
[ 438.030361] [<ffffffff8026ada3>] note_interrupt+0x283/0x2c0
[ 438.030369] [<ffffffff8026ba20>] handle_edge_irq+0xe0/0x150
[ 438.030376] [<ffffffff8020c6bb>] do_IRQ+0x7b/0x100
[ 438.030380] [<ffffffff80209010>] default_idle+0x0/0x40
[ 438.030384] [<ffffffff8020a3a1>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa
[ 438.030386] <EOI> [<ffffffff804216e0>] unix_poll+0x0/0xb0
[ 438.030397] [<ffffffff80209039>] default_idle+0x29/0x40
[ 438.030401] [<ffffffff802090c0>] cpu_idle+0x70/0xc0
[ 438.030414]
[ 438.030415] handlers:
[ 438.030477] [<ffffffff88023d10>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x60 [usbcore])
[ 438.030654] Disabling IRQ #7

also I keep getting this:

[ 596.319878] Trying to free already-free IRQ 0
[ 596.588211] bcm43xx: Cannot register IRQ0

The complete dmesg output is attached

In Gutsy, there isn't a /proc/version_signature file, so I attached the /proc/version file instead

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 07:38:21PM -0000, Ahmed El-Mahmoudy wrote:
> Gutsy Live CD works (I used the 23/7 CD image), yet also the installed
> version doesn't boot unless I use acpi=off option.
> Note that with this option, some things don't work, like the system beep and the USB (inserting a flash disk causes nothing to happen, not even detected in dmesg output).

Hello,

  I just did another test last night, I booted with pci=noacpi option,
  and it boots ! Not only that, but also USB is working, and system beep
  is working too ! But there seems to be a problem still with the wifi
  as I am still getting this in dmesg:

[ 596.319878] Trying to free already-free IRQ 0
[ 596.588211] bcm43xx: Cannot register IRQ0

  Please tell me if there are any outputs I should provide.

Sorry, I found that if I waited for about 10 minutes I get that error
message about the USB again:

[ 438.030260] irq 7: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
[ 438.030336]

[ 438.030336] Call Trace:
[ 438.030339] <IRQ> [<ffffffff8026aabe>] __report_bad_irq+0x1e/0x80
[ 438.030361] [<ffffffff8026ada3>] note_interrupt+0x283/0x2c0
[ 438.030369] [<ffffffff8026ba20>] handle_edge_irq+0xe0/0x150
[ 438.030376] [<ffffffff8020c6bb>] do_IRQ+0x7b/0x100
[ 438.030380] [<ffffffff80209010>] default_idle+0x0/0x40
[ 438.030384] [<ffffffff8020a3a1>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa
[ 438.030386] <EOI> [<ffffffff804216e0>] unix_poll+0x0/0xb0
[ 438.030397] [<ffffffff80209039>] default_idle+0x29/0x40
[ 438.030401] [<ffffffff802090c0>] cpu_idle+0x70/0xc0
[ 438.030414] =

[ 438.030415] handlers:
[ 438.030477] [<ffffffff88023d10>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x60 [usbcore])
[ 438.030654] Disabling IRQ #7

and the USB ceases to work (for ex. won't detect a USB flash disk being
inserted)

Also I forgot to mention that sound also works well with pci=noacpi
option, in contrast with the acpi=off option which made sound work
incorrectly, for example, when I run:

aplay /usr/share/sounds/question.wav

once, the file gets played 3 times, and then another 3 times but with a
lower voice. (note that this is what GDM runs when it starts)

Yet with pci=noacpi option it is normal !

Now, I had this problem in Feisty, but after testing Gutsy Tribe 2, I noticed that it still has the same problem.

When booting up, it halts at a blank screen. The workaround i used was to add "noapic irqpoll noirqdebug" to the kernel parameters.

(Might be a a dup of Bug #89746 )

Try 'nolapic_timer nohz=off' instead.

On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 02:32:29PM -0000, Tim Gardner wrote:
> Try 'nolapic_timer nohz=off' instead.

Hello, I tried nolapic_timer nohz=off, yet the laptop still freezes at
the "Loading hardware drivers..." stage.

Hello,

  I just tried "noapic irqpoll noirqdebug" kernel parameters, and the
  results were good:

  1. system beep works
  2. USB errors dissappeared
  3. wifi errors dissappeared
  4. sound works

  and of course the system didn't freeze during boot.

I seem to have to seem problem with my dv9398eu. Using the kernel options "noapic irqpoll noirqdebug" makes my ehci usb module use 50% of cpu load. You can see that by running "top" in a console window and watch the %id (idle) number. It should be close to 100% when computer is idle. When the ehci module is loaded it is more close to 47%-50%.

I have the same problems on a dv9266eu. I've also blacklisted ehci_hcd to reduce IRQ load.

Exactly the same problem with a HP 6715s on gutsy ! Without the noapic option, screen turns black during boot and nothing happens.
With noapic it runs (almost) stable, but it breaks Sleep/Hibernate.

Interesting is, that on feisty this problem didnt exists for me.

I am seeing this problem on Feisty, without the noapic boot option the PC will not start.
It is a HP Pavilion DV9094EA and installed using the x86 image.
I am in the process of DL the Gutsy AMD64 image and will try to boot into the live option. This did not work on Feisty.
The problems with booting with noapic is that sleep and hibernate does not work nor does high speed USB2.0 work.

I am seeing the same thing as Ahmed does and am attaching the same outputs in one log.

Just tested the Gutsy DL and it also did not come up in live mod.
However when I went to reboot my Feisty i removed the noapic option just to see where it stopped (I did not know about the kernel logs earlier) and this time it worked....
I can confess that it was a while back i tried without the noapic option. I don't think it worked in July beginning Aug but whatever has changed since then has made it work.
I will try the sleep and hibernate know.

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Hello,

  This problem got solved for me somewhere during Jan or Feb 2008. Actually the motherboard fried, so after I replaced it, those problems vanished ! I'm not sure wether the reason was the motherboard itself, or was it also a kernel upgrade that I done after I replaced the board that solved it.

I am using Hardy now, and it's just fine.

Fixed in Hardy.

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