Epic wrote:Thank you for the suggestion. Adding acpi=off to the kernel line in menu.lst worked for me even tough it's strange that the bug was IO-APIC related and not ACPI. I'd like to know if adding acpi=off actually makes a difference on things I can do or cannot do in Ultimate with that option added. Thanks again for the solution, I really appreciate it
when you boot it says "mp-bios bug io-apic timer not connected" correct? i get the same thing. always have for as long as i can remember (im on a desktop). while it is annoying to have to see it on every boot ive never really tried to fix it. doesnt seem to cause any problems though.
as far as removing alsa screwing things up. thats my mistake i forgot to mention a few things. the way i do it is open synaptic. search for "alsa" remove everything that has alsa in the name. it will also remove some other packages as they depend on some of the alsa packages. i always make note of every thing that it wants to remove. after its done with the removal i reinstall EVERY package it just removed then reboot. its very possible that it removed something very important along with alsa and you didnt reinstall it. that would be my guess anyway. your right though it is very sad that they wont fix something just because it doesnt effect the majority of people. its not a ubuntu issue though its the alsa devs since this happens with every distro ive used.