I was getting errors similar to those on my thinkpad t520 but after some searching on the forums I added 'blacklist mei' to my modprobe.conf and it did the trick. On Jan 30, 2012 3:17 PM, <rara8avis@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:03:25PM -0800, Tim Stella wrote: > > On 01/30/12 at 01:22pm, Genes MailLists wrote: > > > > > > I noticed a couple of messages booting the new 3.2.2 kernel: > > > > > > (I) watchdog: > > > --------------------- > > > > > > [287247.568009] NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter. > > > [287248.814530] watchdog: INTCAMT: cannot register miscdev on minor=130 > > > (err=-16). > > > [287248.814536] watchdog: error registering /dev/watchdog (err=-16). > > > [287248.814540] mei: unable to register watchdog device. > > > > > > > > > (I) acpi: > > > --------------------- > > > > > > [ 4749.406097] thinkpad_acpi: unknown possible thermal alarm or > keyboard > > > event received > > > [ 4749.406108] thinkpad_acpi: unhandled HKEY event 0x6040 > > > [ 4749.406114] thinkpad_acpi: please report the conditions when this > > > event happened to ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > [ 4749.406834] thinkpad_acpi: EC reports that Thermal Table has changed > > > > > > > > > suggestions on what I can do to track these down anymore ... or if it > > > could be hard/firm ware issue on this lenovo W520 laptop. > > > > > > thanks. > > > > > > g > > > > I'm getting the watchdog errors as well, on a T520 laptop, was curious > of the > > solution too, but haven't had time to look into it... maybe something to > do with > > Thinkpads? > > > > Tim Stella > I'm also getting the watchdog errors, not on a laptop. But mine says NMI > watchdog disabled: not supported (no LACPI?) FWIW > >