Comment 32 for bug 121111

Hey guys!

same bios bug here:

..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
PCI: BIOS BUG #81 [49...] found
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 000....

I just bought the laptop, and I'm very disappointed.
The vista is working just fine, but I wanna get rid if it.

Tried a few solutions I found on the ubuntu forum, but none work, summary:
1.Disabling APIC from bios, couldn't find anything related to apic.
2. Tried numerous boot options, like noapic, nolapic, acpi=off and pnpbios=off
3. Tried to boot from USB, with the 64 bit version on it, failed, it said something in German...

it did load with the optin: nolapic_timer nohz=off, until it said starting gnome display manager, but it is like that for 10 minutes or so, with a black screen, and then it said that the xserver is not configured... but I cannot configure it, another black screen, with errors, like: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.

I'm not using any tribe cds, it's the final release of the 7,10., and another thing, i'm new to linux, so I cant figure out what are those codes you wrote down, so please, could anyone explain to me what those are if they are a solution to this bug.

Thank you!