Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965098AbXAYXeT (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:34:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965273AbXAYXeT (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:34:19 -0500 Received: from twin.jikos.cz ([213.151.79.26]:39786 "EHLO twin.jikos.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965098AbXAYXeS (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:34:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:33:13 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina To: mirek kratochvil cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Problems on x86_64 laptops (high-load crashes?) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1055 Lines: 25 On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, mirek kratochvil wrote: > I want to ask about strange behavior of linux kernel on some laptops > (namely recent Asus laptops with dualcore 64bit Athlons). There's a > weird bug when the kernel's under some kind of heavy load. It usually > freezes all processes which run from X11 (including X11..) - happens > usually when: [ .. snip .. ] > about hardware - this is mostly seen on Asus A6 and similar laptops. > A6T, A6Tc, A6Km,.... What BIOS do the machines have? 04xx versions are known to be horribly buggy (even the-other-OS(tm) users experience strange things). In case you have BIOS 04.., try to upgrade to 06.. version. Also, does it help when you boot with acpi=off kernel commandline parameter? (do you compile kernel with both acpi and apic support?). -- Jiri Kosina - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/