Re: Frequent kernel crashes on old non-ACPI hardware with 2.6.16+

2006-10-18 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Thanks for the help. I haven't posted since Thursday because, well, it hasn't crashed! After five crashes by noon Wednesday, I was out most of Thursday, treated it with kid gloves Friday and Monday (minimal interaction, did 99% of my work on the laptop), ramped up a bit yesterday, and today have

Re: Re: Frequent kernel crashes on old non-ACPI hardware with 2.6.16+

2006-10-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 10:11:14PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host > bridge (rev 03) > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge > (rev 03) > 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/

Re: Re: Frequent kernel crashes on old non-ACPI hardware with 2.6.16+

2006-10-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Hello, >Can you provide more information on your hardware? Output from a plain: > >lspci > >would be a start, as would the dmesg output. Okay, attaching those two. >On my 1998 era PII machine with BIOStar M6TLC motherboard (Intel 440LX >chipset), dmesg reports "ACPI disabled in BIOS". I also pur

Re: Frequent kernel crashes on old non-ACPI hardware with 2.6.16+

2006-10-12 Thread Arthur Marsh
Adam C Powell IV wrote, On 2006-10-12 03:55: Greetings, I have a seven-year old dual 450 MHz PIII machine which I upgraded from sarge to etch about a month ago. Running 2.6.16, 2.6.17 and 2.6.18 stock kernels, I have had frequent lockups, on the order of two to four per day before I go back to

Frequent kernel crashes on old non-ACPI hardware with 2.6.16+

2006-10-11 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Greetings, I have a seven-year old dual 450 MHz PIII machine which I upgraded from sarge to etch about a month ago. Running 2.6.16, 2.6.17 and 2.6.18 stock kernels, I have had frequent lockups, on the order of two to four per day before I go back to 2.6.8, but five just this morning between 9:30