Re: 2.6.8-rc4-mm1 : Hard freeze due to ACPI

Andrew Morton
2004-08-10T16:42:54Z

Eric Valette <eric.valette@free.fr> 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).