Macbook pro 5,1 freezing after boot

I installed arch on macbook pro 5,1 and it boots, but seems to freeze at waiting for udev uevents to be processed. I was able to get it to boot with acpi=off, but it acpi used to work in the past. Does anyone know how to get it working again, or should I just downgrade the kernel?

Thank you for the reply. Yes, I forgot to mention, I did test with the latest kernel (2.6.39). In fact, I have tested with several ways to install Arch, like net-install (which gives me the current kernel after installation) and even archboot 2011.05. None of them get me pass UDev uevents. I looked around on the internet and one old post report a successful install using the installing CD instead of netinstall. So I suspected it's the newer kernel giving us troubles on Mac After installing from CD (not netinstall) one boots into the system 2.6.33 but then ran into the same problem after pacman -Syu (which upgraded the kernel only to 2.6.34) but adding apci=off let the system boots again.
Unfortunately, I don't know even to carry the investigation further. But I think it's important for the community to look into this. Mac is a popular platform.
I will have this Mac (MacBook Pro 5.1) on my disposal for little while and be willing to do some more test on it. If anyone has suggestion, I'm more that willing to try.

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