Re: Instability without ACPI

Ducrot Bruno
2003-07-11T17:26:39Z

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 06:06:57PM +0100, Andrew de Quincey wrote:
>
> Hmm, since I disabled ACPI, my system has become very unstable. I'm having the
> old random gcc segfaults during compilation which usually indicates some kind
> of hardware issue.
>
> I've been running 2.5.74 for 5-6days _with_ ACPI, and it has been rock solid.
> I've re-enabled ACPI now, so hopefully, the instability will stop.
>

You probably need acpi due to power states for the cpu. Common problem
with laptop shipped with athlon in general (there is a tool called
lvcool though if you do not have acpi).

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