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I am running Ubuntu 10.10 since I thought the upgrade was safely possible on my working machine (programmer here). I recently got a freeze now and then, but slowly it got really annoying, when it went from once in a while to once a day. So I googled around for potential causes and re-installed the graphic driver (ATI Radeon HD 4300).

After this, I suddenly only have one core left - there should be 4, since I have an i5!

When I run Ubuntu from a live-CD everything is fine - so it is not a hardware problem...

Any ideas, what I can do without re-installing?

Per request: 

model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU 750 @ 2.67GHz
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  • Can you append the output of cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep name to your post, please?
    – Oli ♦
    Apr 7, 2011 at 14:29
  • You need to be more specific. What makes you say you only have one core?
    – psusi
    Apr 7, 2011 at 14:48
  • @psusi The command asked them to run should have returned 4 lines, one for each core. Something is awry.
    – Oli ♦
    Apr 7, 2011 at 15:04
  • Okay how about the output of dmesg | grep -i cpu?
    – Oli ♦
    Apr 7, 2011 at 15:10
  • How about uname -a? Does it show SMP?
    – Egil
    Apr 7, 2011 at 17:12

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What I did to rescue my computer: I used synaptic package admin and set the fglrx to re-install. Then I added this line to my grub:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_enforce_resources=lax"

I rebooted and nothing happened. Then I executed

update-grub

And THEN it worked! :)

Thanks for adding your ideas!

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