Re: Problems on x86_64 laptops (high-load crashes?)

[Jiri Kosina]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, mirek kratochvil wrote:

> I want to ask about strange behavior of linux kernel on some laptops 
> (namely recent Asus laptops with dualcore 64bit Athlons). There's a 
> weird bug when the kernel's under some kind of heavy load. It usually 
> freezes all processes which run from X11 (including X11..) - happens 
> usually when:
[ .. snip .. ]
> about hardware - this is mostly seen on Asus A6 and similar laptops. 
> A6T, A6Tc, A6Km,....

What BIOS do the machines have? 04xx versions are known to be horribly 
buggy (even the-other-OS(tm) users experience strange things).

In case you have BIOS 04.., try to upgrade to 06.. version. Also, does it 
help when you boot with acpi=off kernel commandline parameter? (do you 
compile kernel with both acpi and apic support?).

-- 
Jiri Kosina
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