Re: Hard lockup with 4.0 RC5

To: Pierre Pronchery <khorben%defora.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: Hard lockup with 4.0 RC5
From: Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:40:37 +0100


On 24 Jun 2008, at 3:02, Pierre Pronchery wrote:

Interestingly, Linux works by default on the same hardware, regardless
of the BIOS settings (vanilla 2.4.36.2 as Debian etch 2.6.18-6-686).


Do you know whether Linux uses ACPI on your system? Linux refuses to use
ACPI on system with a BIOS released before a certain point of time.
It might be doing that on your system, too.

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                           http://zhadum.org.uk/

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