Comment 25 for bug 270798

@Petter Eklund
>Further investigations and testing indicate that the boot-option noapic provides an usable workaround. I've had the >affected computer running with that boot-option for several hours, leaving it unattended with programs that I usually >had running when the lockup occured for quite a while (this would usually trigger a lockup) and so far it seems like it is >gone.
In fact Ive been trying the workaround, it works, but... when I run OpenGL applications (those that seem to cause the lookups and the hpet increasing) they run really slow. So I've come back to work without the noapic option