I can't reproduce this problem. Where did you find the advice to add the irqpoll option? Please attach (do not inline) the output of these commands without the irqpoll boot option:
sudo dmidecode > dmidecode.txt lspci -vv > lspci.txt dmesg > dmesg.txt ** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.17 (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Tim Gardner Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- loading with elevator=cfq forces using of irqpoll https://launchpad.net/bugs/96575 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs