well, there is a bug report for this problem: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11259 and there are some bug reports for a similar problem (system crashes on lid close if _DOS=1, but on a UP platform). http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6001#c49 but unfortunately we haven't made any progress in this issue. :( thanks, rui On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 00:11 +0800, Matthew Garrett wrote: > If the _DOS flag on my HP 2510p is set to 0 (ie, signal OS when screen > notification is requested, don't change automatically) then it'll crash > on random lid open/closes. The trace generally makes little sense and > depends on the kernel version and phase of the moon. I'd ignored this as > firmware brokenness up until lately, but since having _DOS set to 0 is > the only way to get a notification when the display switch key is > pressed on this machine I'd be interested in fixing it properly. > > Unfortunately, I've got no real idea what on earth is going on. The only > clue I've found so far is that booting with maxcpus=1 leaves it working > perfectly. What parts of the ACPI stack could be triggering this? > -- 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