Comment 7 for bug 34651

Me too:

ASUS K5N8-E
nVIDIA chipset
xubuntu freshly installed

it was a real HORROR:

xubuntu slow down at boot with hard disk led always ON, and system really slow

with acpi and APIC support enabled on bios my ethernet card was seen as ... a FIREWIRE card!!! 8(

acpi=off was only a workaround but NO PS/2 MOUSE can be configured, because is not seen in /proc/bus/input/devices!!! Also I had strange system locks about 5 minutes after the boot up, with no message in log files. HORROR!!!

pci=nommconf worked well for me, now i'm happy. :)

p.s. i HATE LINUX for these things :(