X freeze with kernels 2.6.6-X (solved)

[Mariano Draghi]

Mike Fedyk escribió:

> Marco Coli wrote:
> 
>> Jerry wrote:
...
>> Note the acpi=off option, essential for me, to boot with any 2.6.6-X 
>> kernel without freeze.
...
> I'll have to try this on my home system.  I doubt it is even using acpi 
> though since it is a AMD K6 350 based system, and one particular screen 
> saver.
> 
> Mike

I tested turning ACPI off with no difference. My box is still freezing 
randomly whenever I boot a 2.6.6-X kernel.
I've found strange issues with sound, apart from the freeze. That's 
puzzling me, as the system works perfectly in text mode, and I can't 
imagine how a bug in the kernel can affect so serioulsy Gnome without 
trashing everything else... but well, I must confess I don't know much 
about the kernel (or Gnome) architecture ;)

The problem seems to be exclusive to AMD, or an specific chipset (at 
least that seems to be a "rule" in all the reported problems so far)

There's a bug in bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=125887
(the latest comment suggest that we are discussing diferent problems 
there, though)

-- 
Mariano