The actual settings required in BIOS (M2v-MX Motherboard BIOS v1005 09/14/07) are as follows to avoid CPU soft lockups...
Under the "Power" menu ACPI 2.0 Support [YES] ACPI APIC Support [Disabled] And the lockups go away :) Have just confirmed with latest available mainline kernel (http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.34-rc6-lucid/) that the lockups will still happen if APIC support is enabled in BIOS t...@orac:~$ uname -r 2.6.34-020634rc6-generic -- BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 74s! [ksoftirqd/0:4] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/565202 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
