ubuntu 5.10 won't boot on hp dv8000

[jeremy at hooks.me.uk]

I have a dv8000 laptop, which had difficulty booting SUSE 10.  After a lot of
googling, I found a suggestion to suse the kernel boot option 'acpi=noirq',
works fine now.  Had no luck getting the Wireless to work with 64-bit system,
due to lack of 64-bit Win XP drivers to use with ndiswrapper, so I had to
install SUSE 32-bit.  I haven't got the ATI drivers to work yet either, just
get a kernel panic.  I don't hold out much hope for the n-in-1 card reader, at
the moment.  It is a PCI card reader, which are quite rare.

Good Luck