[mythtv-users] System constantly locks up

[Phill Edwards]

> I have this on my hardware. It hangs when I enter graphical ( X ) but not
> otherwise.
> Append this to your boot string in grub ( or add it to the kernel line to
> make it permanent in grub )
>  acpi=off noacpi
>
> This does the trick for me.  Worth a try maybe.

I made this chanhge a couple of days ago. So far so good, though it's
very early days yet to be sure it was the problem.

Could someone please explain why this works, what it does as I'd be
keen to understand.

Thanks,
Phill