I actually don't believe this problem is fixed at all. I "messed" with
jaunty when I had heard that this problem was fixed in the 2.6.28 kernel but
experienced erratic keyboard/mouse behavior. Might just be me but I never
had the problem in intrepid. Now, I am not sure exactly what your problem is
with the 32bit version crjackson, I do know (having the dv9610us myself),
that it takes a bit of... coaxing... to get it to install out-right. My
laptop refused to boot into the GUI until i pulled up a direct console
(ctrl-alt-f1), customized the xorg.conf file and added the ' Driver "vesa" '
for the video display, then did a 'sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart'. That
allowed me to install the OS and actually will copy that xorg.conf to the
main drive. After which, I connected it to the net via cat5, installed
"b43-fwcutter" (i believe is the file) which enabled my wireless, then
installed nvidia-glx-180 and re-edited my conf file and changed the driver
to "nvidia". Once all that was done i restarted KDE and was good to go with
accelerated drivers. Everything after that is a breeze.

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:18 PM, crjackson <email address hidden>wrote:

> Okay, so I have read through the comments and can't get a clear grasp.
> The status if this bug is Fix Released but it sounds like the problem is
> still there.
>
> I recently convinced my younger brother to convert to Ubuntu and he has
> one of the affected HP Turion systems.  He can't boot a 32-bit distro at
> all, and can boot the 64-bit distro using the keyboard spacebar method
> using Intrepid Ibex 64-bit.
>
> Is it possible to make this problem go away fairly easily or should he
> just go with 8.04? Since 8.10 is already installed and works fine short
> of this issue, 8.10 is preferred.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> System freezes during boot, unless I hold a key down
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272247
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in The Linux Kernel: Confirmed
> Status in Ubuntu Release Notes: New
> Status in "linux" source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in "usplash" source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in linux in Ubuntu Intrepid: Triaged
> Status in usplash in Ubuntu Intrepid: Invalid
> Status in "linux" source package in Mandriva: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Once the Ubuntu splash screen loads with the progress bar that moves back
> and forth, it freezes. Holding down any key unfreezes the system, and it
> continues
> loading normally, until I release the key, at which point it freezes again.
> Holding a key down again unfreezes the system again.
>
> Pressing Alt+F1 to show the output also freezes, so I know it isn't just
> the splash screen freezing, but the entire system.
>
> Once X loads, it works perfectly fine though, and I don't have to keep
> holding a key down.
>
> Update : This bug happens with 2.6.26 and 2.6.27 kernels with a computer
> that has Nvidia MCP67 motherboard. A known workaround that sometimes works
> is to add nolapic to GRUB boot kernel options. acpi=noirq is also known to
> work.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
> NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
> Package: usplash 0.5.23
> ProcEnviron:
>
>  PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
>  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: usplash
> Uname: Linux 2.6.27-3-generic x86_64
>
> ----------
> Possible systems affected include:
> Nvidia MCP67 Chipset
> Compaq Presario F700
> Compaq Presario F763NR
> Sony Vaio PCG-GRT-815E - from the Mandriva errata
> HP Pavilion DV6545eg Notebook - from duplicate
> HP Pavilion DV6736nr
> HP Pavilion DV6745us - from a duplicate
> HP Pavilion DV6620es
> HP Pavilion DV9610us
> HP Pavilion DV9700z
>
>