hi georg... * "Georg C. F. Greve" [2004-01-21 13:27 +0100]: > > FYI: below is my problem report about ACPI freezing my ASUS M2N on > boot with plain vanilla Linux 2.6.1. > > As a possible way of solving the problem I've tried the patch > acpi-20031203-2.6.1.diff.bz2 with date 09-Jan-2004 (have to admit the > version numbering isn't clear to me) I get a different error message > > ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger. > > However, this still appears to be the same problem. two things come to my mind: - disable Local- and IO-APIC. try "noapic" as boot parameter or even disable it completely in .config file. - upgrade your bios, i think 0206 is the latest. hth, sebastian -- ::: .O. ::: ..O ::: OOO ::: lynx -source http://www.kodeaffe.de/shensche.pub | gpg --import