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

[Andrew Morton]

Eric Valette <eric.valette@xxxxxxx> 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).
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