X freeze with kernels 2.6.6-X (solved)

[Richard Emberson]

Maybe related:

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-June/msg07550.html


Mariano Draghi wrote:
> 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)
>