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  1. Bug #270798
  2. Comment #37

Comment 37 for bug 270798

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Sir Romanov (romain-couillet) wrote :

Same problem here, typically happens after around 20min of fullscreen Video Playback, sometimes even before KDM is launched. Some people say this might be caused by WiFi modules (especially on Broadcom 43xx cards) and suggest to append "blacklist b43" to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. Some say this might be linked to power management (hence the "acpi=none" and "nolapic" suggestions)...

Is anyone really working on this subject? For me this is MAJOR and not MEDIUM problem, since the computer has to be restarted every 30min and sometimes does not even go to KDM before stalling!

This must be a replicate of:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/355155