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    Upgraded to Feisty, but having major Kernel issues

    I can't figure this out, and I'm not seeing anything in my logs that poitn to a problem. I have an Acer Aspire 5002WLMi which I've upgraded from Edgy to Feisty. It was a solid stable system, but when I stictched over to Feisty, I've had three problems arise. I had to recompile the ndiswrapper module and install it into the Kernel so that it would work properly (major connection issues untill I did this). But the next two issues have me really puzzeled. If I leav my laptop idleing for 10 minutes, all of a sudden the cpu usage starts to go up untill it is maxed out. I've got the power saving mode of the screen off an screen savers disabled. Now, once the laptop reaches 100% CPU useage, if I don't get to it withing 5 minutes, KDE all of a sudden stops responding. In fact, the computer crashes so hard that the only thign I can do is power it off (ctrl-alt-backspace won't restart X, ctrl-alt-del won't reboot the computer). For now the only way I can get it to run stablely is to used the old 2.6.17 Kernel from Edgy. I don't see any error messages or any other abnormality in dmesage or the system logs when running 2.6.20. I'm not having any issues with my dekstop with the new Kernel. I am curious to see if anyone else experancing any oddities with this Kernel, and if anyone has any idea's what else I should look at to figure out why the new Kernel is so ill bavaed on my loptop.

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    Re: Upgraded to Feisty, but having major Kernel issues

    HEY! I found the issue. With the older Kernel from Edgy, I was booting with the kernel parameter pci=routeirq (if I didn't use that I had a few abnormal problems). When I removed it, all the problems went away and now it's working fine.

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