On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 11:21 -0500, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:

I am having some interesting problems, and I am not sure what the cause is.

Whenever I use the fglrx drivers for the video my machine locks up hard whenever I try anything that uses openGL Also, when I"m using the native wireless madwifi drivers for the Atheros wireless nic The machine will lock up hard when I shut down, or try to disable the NIC.

Does anyone here have any idea what could be the problem? I'm running SUSE 9.3 with Kernel: 2.6.11.4-21.9-smp.

An lsmod output: Module Size Used by radeon 79744 1 drm 68628 2 radeon usbserial 34024 0 cpufreq_userspace 15360 1 acpi_cpufreq 10368 1 speedstep_lib 8324 0 freq_table 8832 1 acpi_cpufreq thermal 18184 0 processor 28780 2 acpi_cpufreq,thermal fan 8836 0 button 11024 0 ipv6 273920 12 battery 14084 0 ac 9220 0 joydev 13888 0 snd_pcm_oss 66464 0 sg 42912 0 nvram 13576 0 snd_mixer_oss 24448 1 snd_pcm_oss st 43676 0 sd_mod 23168 0 sr_mod 21284 0 scsi_mod 136264 4 sg,st,sd_mod,sr_mod evdev 12928 1 usbhid 48096 0 af_packet 26760 2 8139too 30464 0 mii 9088 1 8139too edd 14560 0 pcmcia 28940 2 ath_pci 65696 0 ath_rate_onoe 13192 1 ath_pci wlan 121820 3 ath_pci,ath_rate_onoe ath_hal 152528 2 ath_pci yenta_socket 25608 1 rsrc_nonstatic 14720 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core 53424 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic ati_agp 12556 1 ehci_hcd 37896 0 agpgart 37676 2 drm,ati_agp ohci_hcd 25864 0 parport_pc 44356 1 lp 15396 0 parport 40392 2 parport_pc,lp snd_atiixp 25696 1 snd_ac97_codec 84476 1 snd_atiixp snd_pcm 108676 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 31364 1 snd_pcm snd 70788 8 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_atiixp,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 13664 1 snd snd_page_alloc 14340 2 snd_atiixp,snd_pcm usbcore 121688 5 usbserial,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd video1394 22860 0 ohci1394 37508 1 video1394 raw1394 34540 0 ieee1394 108472 3 video1394,ohci1394,raw1394 capability 7224 0 nls_iso8859_1 8064 1 nls_cp437 9728 1 vfat 17792 1 fat 43804 1 vfat dm_mod 64768 0 reiserfs 263024 2 ide_cd 44036 0 cdrom 42784 2 sr_mod,ide_cd ide_disk 22400 5 atiixp 10256 0 [permanent] ide_core 131904 3 ide_cd,ide_disk,atiixp

lspci output:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS300 Host Bridge (rev 02) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 9100 IGP AGP Bridge 0000:00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc OHCI USB Controller #1 (rev 01) 0000:00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc OHCI USB Controller #2 (rev 01) 0000:00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc EHCI USB Controller (rev 01) 0000:00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SMBus (rev 18) 0000:00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4349 0000:00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434c 0000:00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4342 0000:00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 Audio Controller 0000:00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc IXP AC'97 Modem (rev 01) 0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS300M AGP [Radeon Mobility 9100IGP] 0000:02:02.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) 0000:02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) 0000:02:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller (rev 01)

I have not tried openSUSE on this laptop, due to its being my primary, but I would really like to get past this. Any ideas or pointers in the right direction would be appreciated.

Hi, Try booting with kernel line option acpi=off and see if lockups reoccur. Reagrds, Daniel