[ltp] T60 lockups (ACPI?)

[Glenn]

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Richard Neill wrote:
> 
> 
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
>> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Richard Neill wrote:
>>> Any thoughts? Do I have dodgy hardware?
>>
>> Unless a pen drive in a slot, being docked, using a different HD or
>> device
>> in the bay, or operating in an area with more radio traffic with the
>> radios
>> on are possibilities, then yes, dodgy hardware is the *only* explanation
>> left.
> 
> Thanks for the confirmation. It's definitely none of the above. I'll
> take advantage of the 3-year warranty once I get back from holiday.
> 
> What's weird is how it could fail in this way. Motherboards are usually
> either dead, or they aren't. This one seems to be partly non-functional,
> and only intermittently so. Why would the acpi=off,noapic,nolapic
> combination fix this?
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
> P.S. Does this mean I've also been unfair on the ATI fglrx driver by
> blaming it for past crashes?
> 
I have had my t60p hang at "setting acpi tables" or somesuch, and also
as you mention, booting with acpi=no was the only way to get it to boot.
This disables the wireless, but a subsequent reboot without disabling
acpi would usually work. I havent had the problem for some time, not
sure if its related to the latest bios. Oh, and I would not have
necceserilly hard lockups before this, but iirc, it was usually with
warm reboots. I was playing with a lot of bleeding edge wireless stuff
for a while there, and it did seem to be more often after kernel oopses.
No idea if there was a correlation there.

Glenn
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