X freeze with kernels 2.6.6-X (solved)
Richard Emberson
remberson at edgedynamics.com
Mon Jun 28 23:22:39 UTC 2004
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)
>
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