Bug 16602

Summary: NMI message flood when activating second video output
Product: Other Reporter: Tom Malfrere (tom.malfrere)
Component: OtherAssignee: other_other
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE    
Severity: high CC: alan
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.34 Subsystem:
Regression: No Bisected commit-id:
Attachments: Listing of the kernel message flood

Description Tom Malfrere 2010-08-16 08:17:02 UTC
Created attachment 27462 [details]
Listing of the kernel message flood

When I connect my external monitor to my VGA output, my console get's flooded with kernel messages (see attachment).
My CPU usage shoots up.
I get 186 kernel messages every second

These 3 message come back all the time:

...
Message from syslogd@Enigma at Aug 15 13:29:40 ...
 kernel:[ 3694.270468] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 2f on CPU 0.

Message from syslogd@Enigma at Aug 15 13:29:40 ...
 kernel:[ 3694.270473] Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled?

Message from syslogd@Enigma at Aug 15 13:29:40 ...
 kernel:[ 3694.270475] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
...

The reason values changes between 0f, 1f, 2f and 3f


Hardware:
ASUS A6KT laptop.
CPU: AMD Turion MT34.
GPU: ATI X1600 mobile.

Software:
standard openSUSE 11.3 desktop kernel.

PS: suspend is not working either.