I've recently purchased a HP Envy 17 j053ea machine to take advantage of the i7 and oodles of memory. Cutting to the chase I suffered from many issues with this install. The wireless didn't work, the screen "black screened" during installation and thereafter during booting. The get around for the black screen was the boot option acpi=off
, but this of course meant that the laptop would not suspend when I closed the lid which is clearly suboptimal. After searching for the past two days I have found many good articles/explanations of acpi and a much better option:
For info on acpi see: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/ACPI-HOWTO/
For more info see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ACPI_modules
Then I found:
No ACPI support for my PC, what can I do? from irrational_john ... way to go .. acpi=ht
didn't work but pci=noacpi
has done the trick. For your hardware I'd recommend John's approach pf cycling through the options he provided:
nolapic
noapic
acpi_osi=“Linux”
acpi_osi=“Windows 2006”
acpi=ht
pci=noacpi
acpi=noirq
pnpacpi=off
With this in hand abd to address “wub's” .. on point answer above, once you find the one that works:
bash# cd /etc/default
bash# sudo vi grub
# Use the vi editor to add the boot options to the line
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=
and make it (in my case):
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“quiet splash pci=noacpi”
finish with:
bash# sudo update-grub
bash# sudo reboot