From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267541AbUHJQmy (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:42:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267520AbUHJQls (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:41:48 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:49346 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267541AbUHJQJn (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Aug 2004 12:09:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:07:43 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: eric.valette@free.fr Cc: len.brown@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sziwan@hell.org.pl Subject: Re: 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 : Hard freeze due to ACPI Message-Id: <20040810090743.3fa75a74.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <4118A500.1080306@free.fr> References: <41189098.4000400@free.fr> <4118A500.1080306@free.fr> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Eric Valette wrote: > > Eric Valette wrote: > > I tried 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 on my ASUS L3800C laptop (radeon 7500), defined > > CONFIG_FB_MODE_HELPERS and I have got a hard freeze when starting X and > > framebuffer console with a lot of yellow dot on the bottom screen. > > Suddently I hear the fan meaning the machine is dead > > OK I've reverted the most suspect change > (remove-unconditional-pci-acpi-irq-routing.patch) and it did not fix the > problem. As Karol Kozimor suspected ACPI, I then tried with acpi=off and > then it boot but I will burn my CPU as fans are ACPI controlled... Are you sure that the problem is due to ACPI? I'd have been suspecting the video mode database rewrite (video-mode-handling-*.patch).