Hi Daniel I have now tried your suggested workaround unfortunatley to no avail.
The system still crashes. I cant confirm the test that the system is loading the driver as it doesnt stay stable long enough to check. However, just to doubly make sure I went to the exent of removing the /lib/modules/server....38-11/..../rc directory entirely (which contains the ene_ir driver and others) then booted with the 38-11 kernel. I receieved no boot errors which indicates that the module wasnt trying to load anyway (prob from the blacklist entry), however I didnt event get to login before it crashed and rebooted. This is on the ASUS Z7S board which is a dual quad xeon - and a damn shame that its usefulness is diminishing. I note that a fellow owner on my associated bug also failed the fix. Any other suggestions? I'm happy to spend some proper time testing under your instruction over the xmas period. many thanbks Brendan -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/784484 Title: dramatic kernel panic on Ubuntu 11.04 and derivatives- when rebooted. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/784484/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs