Edgy on Dell Latitude D620

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Guill. Moreno-Socias wrote:
> On 11/1/06, *Uwe Korn* <xhochy at yahoo.de <mailto:xhochy at yahoo.de>> wrote:
> 
>     > [17179638.208000] hw_random: cannot enable RNG, aborting
>     > * Activating swap... [ ok ]
>     > mount: Function not implemented
>     > * Checking file systems...
>     > fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006)
>     > [ ok ]
>     > [1719652.708000] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!
> 
>     I had the same problem, just pressing ctr+alt+del continued the startup,
>     and then everything worked fine with edgy(I've a core2duo laptop too, so
>     this could be a problem with the intel chipset, mine is i945)
> 
> 
>    In my case, ctrl+alt+del does nothing, the computer is really frozen
> (ctrl+alt+F1, etc. are inactive too).
>    I also have an Intel chipset 945 PM.
>                                                          Guillermo
> Moreno-Socías
> 

a guess-
I had some similar problems (not ubuntu) and it seemed to be related
to the mouse which was plugged in.   It eventually went away - I
changed the mouse later.
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