Hardy Heron Loading hardware drivers failed

Problem with "loading hardware drivers failed" persists. Kernel is to to date in 2.6.24-12 as of Mar.27, 08

Xorg.conf same as above. Including /proc/bus/input/devices with this post:
Currently, no audio device detected, no wireless, synaptics touchpad not scrolling.

linux@linux-laptop:~$ cat /proc/bus/input/devices
I: Bus=0017 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="Macintosh mouse button emulation"
P: Phys=
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input0
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event0
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab54
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event1
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=4 2000000 3803078 fb00f001 7effffdf ffefffff ffffffff ffffffff
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7

I: Bus=0010 Vendor=001f Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="PC Speaker"
P: Phys=isa0061/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input2
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event2
B: EV=40001
B: SND=6

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0002 Version=0000
N: Name="Power Button (FF)"
P: Phys=LNXPWRBN/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input3
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event3
B: EV=3
B: KEY=100000 0 0 0

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0005 Version=0000
N: Name="Lid Switch"
P: Phys=PNP0C0D/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input4
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=event4
B: EV=21
B: SW=1

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0003 Version=0000
N: Name="Sleep Button (CM)"
P: Phys=PNP0C0E/button/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input5
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event5
B: EV=3
B: KEY=4000 0 0 0 0

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0007 Version=2cb1
N: Name="SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse1 event6
B: EV=b
B: KEY=6420 0 70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=11000003

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=0000 Product=0006 Version=0000
N: Name="Video Bus"
P: Phys=LNXVIDEO/video/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:02/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input7
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event7
B: EV=3
B: KEY=3f000b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=000a Version=0000
N: Name="TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint"
P: Phys=synaptics-pt/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/input/input8
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse2 event8
B: EV=7
B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=3

I: Bus=0019 Vendor=1014 Product=5054 Version=4101
N: Name="ThinkPad Extra Buttons"
P: Phys=thinkpad_acpi/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input9
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event9
B: EV=13
B: KEY=1e8c0000 0 0 100100 0 0 0 14008 2000 0 1004000 0 0 0 0
B: MSC=10

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=1014 Product=5450 Version=0001
N: Name="/usr/sbin/thinkpad-keys"
P: Phys=
S: Sysfs=/devices/virtual/input/input10
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=kbd event10
B: EV=3
B: KEY=3 1 20000000 100000 e0000 0 0 0

Thank you.

Ok. I was finally able to resolve this problem to some extent.

Cleaned up dmesg greatly by adding "lapic" to the kernel line in kernels 2.6.22-14 and 2.6.24-12.

Also changed a config setting for cpu to "custom" in the system bios.

Finally ran "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg.

An xorg.conf file was written to /etc/x11 where previously there had been none...only something in /usr/share/xresprobe....I believe.

Anyway dmeg looks much better. Synaptics touchpad is finally scrolling and 2.6.22-14-generic seems good.
Still no sound in kernel 2.6.24-12.

solved to some extent

Ack. forgot to mention, also removed "ro" from the kernel line when adding "lapic" as previous the was an error in dmesg to the effect "failed to write.......to read only"

Hi spiderbatdad,

With the most recent 2.6.24-19 hardy kernel, can you clarify what the remaining issues you have are, if any? Thanks.

No remaining issues. Fixed as described. Currently using 2.6.26-5-server