On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 08:09:34PM -0700, Urias McCullough wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > ... I should have mentioned that this was an alpha-3 image on the > > USB-stick. > > Weren't the IOAPIC changes post-A3? If yes, then I would test again > with a nightly - until the IOAPIC changes done by mmlr, USB, Wifi, > Ethernet, and HDA shared IRQs conflicted terribly on my netbook and > that fixed it. > > Personally, I wouldn't imagine running A3 at this point - so many > fixes and improvements have been implemented since then... Hmm. OK. I didn't realize there had been such significant recent changes. I've made a new stick (hrev44242). Unfortunately the changes are so significant that it won't boot on my current machine!! (The boot icons appear, but none light up. Safe mode makes no difference.) [BTW, I'm slightly confused about the safe-mode options. Does the top "Safe Mode" item select all the ones below, or are they completely independent? If the latter, what does safe mode *do* exactly?] I guess I have to take the new version along to try, but I'm not sure how hopeful I am. My current (Dell) box has had drive troubles, so if I get the laptop I can probably retire it (though I'm not happy about the inability to update before then!). I'm thinking that I'm likely to buy the laptop anyway. It would certainly be dual-boot, so I'd at least have a fully usable Ubuntu partition -- maybe AVLinux, too. With Dane et al pressing, I guess we're certain to get full HDA eventually. [And I'm willing to help, though I don't think I'd want to apply for a bounty.] -- Pete --