Comment 174 for bug 272247

rafaeljcg: thanks for the link, it was full of all sorts of useful information and I have bookmarked it accordingly.

I found another issue which I suspect may possibly be a result of this on-going bug, however, since I am not sure I was hoping I could get some insight from a few guys frequenting this but report. Since alot of you with this problem seem to have the same chipset (nvidia), I'd like to ask if any of you also have problem with your consoles.

CTRL-ALT-F1 -> F6 have not worked for me since I installed Intrepid beta. It actually seems to be erratic, while diagnosing the problem I had a few consoles open, "tail -f "-ing the following log files:

/var/log/Xorg.0.log
/var/log/kern.log
/home/<user>/.xsession-errors

I could not find anything refecting any sort of error when switching to console, however during repeated tests, the console would randomly start working, and then stop working. After a while my keyboard sort-of went hay-wire out requiring a reboot.

It seems to me that this apci/lapic issue is the only one plaguing these laptops and I am curious as to whether or not it might be related. I'd be more than happy to provide any alternative log files and information anyone requires, or a link to another bug or perhaps a general "you did <this> wrong, or forgot to do <that>". I am fresh out of Ideas.

My laptop is:

HP Pavilion dv9610us (add that to the list of problematic systems if it isn't already (dv9000 series))
gfxcard: nVidia GeForce 7150M @ 1440x900
cpu: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-58 @ 1.9GHZ