I shall test the work-around tonight. My computer is a Shuttle with nForce2 chipset (someone reported the bug on a Via chipset too above), GeForce 6 graphics card, and obviously no PCMCIA device.
-- [feisty][linux-image-2.6.19-7] PCMCIA bridge driver i82365 causes "BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!" on Asus motherboards https://launchpad.net/bugs/72895 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs