2.6.32 kernel needs noapic on Acer Travelmate 430 which earlier kernels did not need

I recently upgraded the kernel on an elderly Acer laptop from 2.6.26 to 2.6.32 and found that it hung just after initialising the pcmcia socket. Looking at the dmesg output from booting 2.6.26 there seemed to be something about ACPI interrupts, so I added noapic and it now boots. The machine is

Re: 2.6.32 kernel needs noapic on Acer Travelmate 430 which earlier kernels did not need

David Goodenough wrote: I recently upgraded the kernel on an elderly Acer laptop from 2.6.26 to 2.6.32 and found that it hung just after initialising the pcmcia socket. Looking at the dmesg output from booting 2.6.26 there seemed to be something about ACPI interrupts, so I added noapic and it