I have Feisty on a Toshiba A75-S206 with the same symptoms: "MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC" at boot, hangs constantly from 1 to 10 minutes after logging in X. I can confirm that adding "noapic" to boot options fixes the problem.
-- hangs, windows become unresponsive without noapic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/98999 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs