Bug#515172: [linux-image-2.6-amd64] system briefly lockup with messages: CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec

[Nadav Kavalerchik <nadavkav@gmail.com>]

Package: linux-image-2.6-amd64
Version: 2.6.26-13
Severity: important

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i have these lockup issues while using kde 4.2 on 
Debian Sid + 2.6.26 AMD64 + nvidia 180.22
Processor 2x Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7350 @ 2.00GHz

some times i get a message from kde that it is disabling compositing
for things to work properly. but not all the times.

see my laptop hardware list: 
http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/HP/Pavilion_dv7

/var/log/messages:
2009-02-12 10:49:57     CE      hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 22500 nsec
2009-02-12 10:57:51     CE      hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 33750 nsec
2009-02-12 11:28:25     CE      hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 50624 nsec

please see already reported bug at ubuntu's bugzilla:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/270798


--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64

Debian Release: 5.0
  500 unstable        www.debian-multimedia.org 
  500 unstable        snapshots.ekiga.net 
  500 unstable        mirror.isoc.org.il 
  500 testing         security.debian.org 
    1 experimental    mirror.isoc.org.il 

--- Package information. ---
Depends                         (Version) | Installed
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linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64                | 2.6.26-13