Laptop freezes

[James Strandboge]

On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 14:01 +0200, Nils wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm running Kubuntu Dapper on my compaq nx7010. Dapper ran fine for
> some time, but today and yesterday the laptop frooze 2 times, i
> checked /var/log/messages but didn't find anything about that.
> 
> I don't have any proprietary driver installed (like fglrx), but I use
> hibernate, which has been unstable some time ago (but worked fine for
> me so far..).
> 
> Now I'm looking for ideas to figure out what caused my laptop to freeze..

Shot in the dark, but required on some systems: add 'noapic nolapic' to
your kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst.  Eg:

title           Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-26-386
root            (hd0,7)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-26-386 root=/dev/hda8 ro quiet noapic nolapic
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-26-386
savedefault
boot

Then reboot.  If you like how it works out, then can add the above to
your 'kopt' line in /boot/grub/menu.lst:
# kopt=root=/dev/hda8 ro noapic nolapic 

(the pound sign is important), and then run 'sudo update-grub'.  This
way whenever the kernel gets updated, your settings will not be lost.

You may also try specifying 'pci=noacpi' if the above doesn't work out.

Jamie