EDIT: "acpi=off" led to a stall also... But appending "noapic nolapic acpi=off" 
to the GRUB menu led to (up to now) no stalling... video playback, ethernet 
connected for already 12 hours, no problem.
Can you guys try and confirm this is a workaround?

For what I understand, LAPIC uses its own clock set on the CPU's
frequency to handle interrupts. When you disable it, you might get rid
off some synchronisation issues. However, it is said often to make the
ACPI Power Management unstable; so better use "acpi=off" also.

The problem now is that there is no longer any CPU frequency scaling
(since ACPI is discarded, the kernel cannot control the CPU frequency)
and then the computer is running full speed... which on a laptop would
quickly exhaust the battery and keep the CPU hot (unless on the contrary
this sets the CPU to lowest frequency... how can I know that? maybe even
not both cores are used...)! Does anyone have further information on
that? What would be the default setting?

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