Kernels newer than 2.6.28-19.66 lock system after 5-10 mins

[David L. Sanders]

On any install of a system or use of a kernel past 2.6.28-19 (that I have tried) the system hangs after a short time. First no program will save and no new programs will run and there are msgs (kernel panic I think it's called) on the screen. If in X first the wireless disconnects and asks for WEP password then the USB mouse stops working the finally the laptop's built in mouse and keyboard stops responding (although the graphics and animations onscreen continue to animate) The only recourse I seem to have at this point is hold the power button until the power supply cycles and try to boot again. I think the problem is kernel ATA driver related as it works fine with Mint 7,winXP, Vista, and Win7 and the msg blocks I receive look somthing like this:

[ 86.052071] ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xa0)
[ 86.052090] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[ 86.052095] sr 1:0:0:0: CDB: Test Unit Ready: 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 86.052108] ata2.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
[ 86.052109] res 51/20:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x5 (timeout)
[ 86.052113] ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[ 86.052155] ata2: soft resetting link
[ 86.232630] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 86.233040] ata2: EH complete
[ 327.052069] ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xa0)
[ 327.052087] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
[ 327.052092] sr 1:0:0:0: CDB: Test Unit Ready: 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 327.052106] ata2.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
[ 327.052107] res 51/20:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x5 (timeout)
[ 327.052111] ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
[ 327.052152] ata2: soft resetting link
[ 327.232621] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 327.233091] ata2: EH complete
[ 341.000062] ata2: lost interrupt (Status 0x50)

my current inxi is:

System: Host mint Kernel 2.6.28-19-generic i686 (32 bit) Distro Linux Mint 7 Gloria - Main Edition
CPU: Single core Intel Celeron M 520 (UP) cache 1024 KB flags (sse3 nx lm) clocked at 1599.991 MHz
Graphics: Card ATI RC410 [Radeon Xpress 200M] X.Org 1.6.0 Res 1280x800@60.0hz
GLX Renderer Mesa DRI R300 20060815 x86/MMX/SSE2 NO-TCL GLX Version 1.3 Mesa 7.4
Audio: Card ATI IXP SB4x0 High Definition Audio Controller driver HDA Intel
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.18rc3
Network: Card-1 Atheros AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter driver ath5k_pci
Card-2 Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ driver 8139too
Disks: HDD Total Size: 80.0GB (46.2% used) 1: TOSHIBA MK8037GS
Partition: ID:/ size: 18G used: 3.6G (22%)
Info: Processes 128 Uptime 12 min Memory 334.2/874.8MB Client Shell inxi 1.0.6

A complete kern.log is available at http://pastebin.com/uXsWgjRT for your convenience, of a single boot and subsequent lockup.

Should I give up on newer distros and use the old unsupported ones or is there a fix for this?

Thank you much for your time,
KIWSA

[David L. Sanders (thekiwsa)]

Also tried memtest for about 8 hours and came out fine and fully tested the drive for problems and errors and there are none until I install a newer kernel. I also tried removing my mouse (still happens), removed my wireless card (still happens), replaced my ram with spare (still happens), replaced HD with spare(still happens)

Sorry I Forgot this information in the original post, and thanks again.

KIWSA

[axion (bugzilla-axion)]

Try adding nolapic noapic or/and noacpi

[David L. Sanders (thekiwsa)]

tried nolapic noapic or/and noacpi as one of the first things I did. Sorry I did not mention these.

Thanks for trying to help, but I gave up on this over 8 months ago and went back to WINXP when no one got back to me at all after about 2-3 weeks. Hope you guys get this stuff worked out. I think this craptop is just not compat. with newer 'Nix distros...

KIWSA