On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Chris Rankin wrote: > - The kernel is likely to lock up when the video.ko modules loads, if nmi_watchdog=1 NEVER use nmi_watchdog on thinkpads. IBM/Lenovo's crap of a SMBIOS is deeply alergic to NMIs while handling a SMI. I don't know why the nmi_watchdog is not blacklisted on thinkpads, I recall someone wanted to do that and sent a patch... > - The VID/ directory appears twice in the /proc/acpi/video/ directory: > > $ ls -alis /proc/acpi/video/ > total 0 > 4026532147 0 dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 0 2007-07-24 22:17 . > 4026531915 0 dr-xr-xr-x 12 root root 0 2007-07-24 19:27 .. > 4026532169 0 dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 0 2007-07-24 22:17 VID > 4026532169 0 dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 0 2007-07-24 22:17 VID This is stuff that is overloaded by a SSDT in the thinkpad. Maybe something is weird with that? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
