Linux : How to fix IRQ issues with customer grade motherboards on Ubuntu

By | January 20, 2013

Most of low end motherboard will have IRQ/Call Trace issues on Linux. To resolve this, you might to force irqpoll.

To achieve that, edit the grub config :

gksudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

And then, add “acpi=force irqpoll”:

defoptions=quiet splash acpi=force irqpoll

Update Grub :

sudo update-grub

If you are using grub2 :

gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub

And then, add :

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=”acpi=force irqpoll”

Update Grub :

sudo update-grub