> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 12:41:20AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > This doornails the Vaio. After grub handover the screen remains black
> > and the fan goes whir.
> >
> >
http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt
>
> This seems to be UP regression. Sorry abt that. I could recreate
> the problem very easily with CONFIG_SMP turned off.
>
> Can you check if this patch works? Works for me here.