Created attachment 24222 [details] dmesg-2.6.32 Hi, I believe this is not critical but as this is a new install on rather old Acer TravelMate 291Lci laptop based on Pentium4-M I guess you are interested in the HW test anyway: [ 0.003312] CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K [ 0.003420] CPU: L2 cache: 1024K [ 0.003498] mce: CPU supports 5 MCE banks [ 0.003582] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 0.003668] WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:249 native_apic_write_dummy+0x2d/0x39() [ 0.003794] Hardware name: TravelMate 290 [ 0.003872] Modules linked in: [ 0.003978] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32 #12 [ 0.004002] Call Trace: [ 0.004084] [<c101f8c8>] warn_slowpath_common+0x60/0x90 [ 0.004167] [<c101f905>] warn_slowpath_null+0xd/0x10 [ 0.004248] [<c1010426>] native_apic_write_dummy+0x2d/0x39 [ 0.004331] [<c100ba3e>] intel_init_thermal+0xce/0x161 [ 0.004413] [<c100b8c1>] mce_intel_feature_init+0xb/0x4e [ 0.004499] [<c1426fb4>] mcheck_init+0x24b/0x2ca [ 0.004580] [<c1425b4f>] identify_cpu+0x30b/0x31b [ 0.004663] [<c108fb8e>] ? proc_register+0xd3/0x11a [ 0.004748] [<c14081e8>] identify_boot_cpu+0xd/0x1e [ 0.004829] [<c1408282>] check_bugs+0xb/0xd3 [ 0.004910] [<c141430f>] ? proc_root_init+0x9d/0x9f [ 0.005004] [<c1404634>] start_kernel+0x208/0x217 [ 0.005085] [<c140405c>] i386_start_kernel+0x5c/0x5e [ 0.005172] ---[ end trace 4eaa2a86a8e2da22 ]--- [ 0.005252] CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM2) [ 0.005337] CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz stepping 05 [ 0.005479] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. [ 0.009481] ACPI: Core revision 20090903
Created attachment 24223 [details] .config
this doesn't seem like an ACPI problem to me. :) see if we can get help here.