Sorry, I should have thought that one through. As an update I have discovered the possible reason for the flood of "APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)" messages and detailed it in an associated bug: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bug/66900
Essentially the ohci1394 needed to be removed, which seems to point at a problem with firewire. -- BCM43xx failing on Edgy kernel https://launchpad.net/bugs/69026 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
