I have the same problem on my Lenovo T500. I think the graphics card is involved. This laptop has "hybrid graphics" - one Intel GMA 4500MHD and one ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650. When I boot with the Intel card, I get "irq 16: nobody cared" during boot, not when I boot with the ATI card. And /proc/interrupts are surely different with the two cards. Look at the irq 16 line: $ cat intel-interrupts.txt CPU0 CPU1 0: 23658 22859 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 168 177 IO-APIC-edge i8042 8: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0 9: 329 347 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 12: 3065 3166 IO-APIC-edge i8042 16: 49732 50269 IO-APIC-fasteoi yenta, uhci_hcd:usb6 17: 1 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi firewire_ohci, uhci_hcd:usb7 18: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi mmc0, uhci_hcd:usb8 19: 216 204 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2 20: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb3 21: 114 103 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb4 22: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb5 23: 9 9 IO-APIC-fasteoi i801_smbus, ehci_hcd:usb1 40: 0 0 DMAR_MSI-edge dmar2 41: 0 0 DMAR_MSI-edge dmar0 42: 0 0 DMAR_MSI-edge dmar3 43: 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge PCIe PME 44: 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge PCIe PME 45: 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge PCIe PME 46: 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge PCIe PME 47: 10023 10173 PCI-MSI-edge ahci 48: 10 8 PCI-MSI-edge mei 49: 22 30 PCI-MSI-edge eth0 50: 66 71 PCI-MSI-edge i915 51: 2508 2348 PCI-MSI-edge iwlwifi 52: 168 169 PCI-MSI-edge snd_hda_intel NMI: 17 17 Non-maskable interrupts LOC: 27988 25243 Local timer interrupts SPU: 0 0 Spurious interrupts PMI: 17 17 Performance monitoring interrupts IWI: 0 0 IRQ work interrupts RTR: 0 0 APIC ICR read retries RES: 4584 2746 Rescheduling interrupts CAL: 6178 7492 Function call interrupts TLB: 702 651 TLB shootdowns TRM: 0 0 Thermal event interrupts THR: 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts MCE: 0 0 Machine check exceptions MCP: 1 1 Machine check polls ERR: 0 MIS: 0 $ cat ati-interrupts.txt CPU0 CPU1 0: 15488 15268 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 182 189 IO-APIC-edge i8042 8: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0 9: 328 339 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 12: 2071 1997 IO-APIC-edge i8042 16: 55 47 IO-APIC-fasteoi yenta, uhci_hcd:usb4 17: 1 1 IO-APIC-fasteoi firewire_ohci, uhci_hcd:usb5 18: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb6, mmc0 19: 219 202 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb8 20: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb1 21: 112 104 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb2 22: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb3 23: 10 8 IO-APIC-fasteoi i801_smbus, ehci_hcd:usb7 40: 0 0 DMAR_MSI-edge dmar1 41: 0 0 DMAR_MSI-edge dmar0 42: 0 0 DMAR_MSI-edge dmar2 43: 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge PCIe PME 44: 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge PCIe PME 45: 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge PCIe PME 46: 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge PCIe PME 47: 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge PCIe PME 48: 9733 9932 PCI-MSI-edge ahci 49: 9 9 PCI-MSI-edge mei 50: 2308 2196 PCI-MSI-edge iwlwifi 51: 15 35 PCI-MSI-edge eth0 52: 818 815 PCI-MSI-edge radeon 53: 167 167 PCI-MSI-edge snd_hda_intel NMI: 17 16 Non-maskable interrupts LOC: 18139 34223 Local timer interrupts SPU: 0 0 Spurious interrupts PMI: 17 16 Performance monitoring interrupts IWI: 0 0 IRQ work interrupts RTR: 0 0 APIC ICR read retries RES: 3788 3563 Rescheduling interrupts CAL: 6303 5894 Function call interrupts TLB: 711 711 TLB shootdowns TRM: 0 0 Thermal event interrupts THR: 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts MCE: 0 0 Machine check exceptions MCP: 1 1 Machine check polls ERR: 0 MIS: 0 -- Hilsen Harald -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html