I've seen in dmesg some things I wanted to comment to you. First of all, I've seen a message at boot: ACPI: System BIOS is requesting _OSI(Linux) ACPI: Please test with "acpi_osi=!Linux" Please send dmidecode to linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org I've tested with that boot option, and I see exactly same message (maybe a bug?) dmidecode is attached. ========================= I've seen: ACPI: BIOS bug: multiple APIC/MADT found, using 0 ACPI: If "acpi_apic_instance=2" works better, notify linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Testing with that option, I see no difference, except the message change, now says: ACPI: BIOS bug: multiple APIC/MADT found, using 2 ACPI: If "acpi_apic_instance=0" works better, notify linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org ========================= I don't know what it is exactly, but I mail you with information requested. Please let me know if it is useful, and if you need more info, just tell me. This is a Samsung R70 laptop, intel core2 duo 1800, 2GB ram 'Santa Rosa'. By the way, info of dmidecode is not 100% correct, I don't know why. This is what is not correct: extract of dmidecode.txt: ==================== Handle 0x000B, DMI type 10, 6 bytes On Board Device Information Type: Sound Status: Disabled (***!!! Sound is enabled and fully functional) Description: HD-Audio ======= I wait for your answer, hope this is useful to improve kernel. David.