I just noticed that you are still on Edgy (2.6.17). How about getting the Feisty daily at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current, burn a CD and boot from it. You don't have to install Feisty in order to test if irqpoll is still required. There have been a huge number of APIC and ACPI related changes. By Monday there will be even more, several having to do with JMicron controller quirks.
-- loading with elevator=cfq forces using of irqpoll https://launchpad.net/bugs/96575 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
