That is strange. On my notebook blacklisting asus_acpi really does help... maybe it only works on the A6Km. :/
Could you try blacklisting some of the other acpi modules? You can find them all in the directory below. You also need to add seperate lines in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist for every module... otherwise only the first module is counted for. /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/kernel/drivers/acpi Since hald is hanging on acpi lid, the button acpi module is a good candidate. I tried this on my notebook and got rid of the hal error. This also disabled suspend / hibernate functions, which I guess is the expected behaviour. Maybe you could even try booting with noacpi - just to see if the hal error message disappears. -- HAL fails to initialize on ASUS A6 series notebooks https://launchpad.net/bugs/62990 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
