Could it be possible that mandrake provides a precompiled kernel without apic and detect at intall when the machine is a buggy one ?
(Of course if only the presario 7xx has the bug, it would be stupid...)
And isn't it possible to use "noapic apci=on" on boot instead of recompiling ?
Sascha Noyes a écrit:
On Monday 10 March 2003 17:14, Henri wrote:
on presario 700 : upgraded 9.0 to rc2 : apci does not work.
i made a non-expert upgrade, and packages apci and apcid were NOT
installed by default.
I went to control center->lilo config and then it installed it BUT
TURNING IT ON FREEZE THE PC AT BOOT !
using the non-fb entry, i can see it frozen on a the apci PCI detection....
Sascha's obligatory Presario 700 message:
This series of laptops has got bugs in its implementation of Power Management
(which is done entirely with the newer ACPI and not the old APM). This causes
the machine to lock up on boot with the default kernel. It is possible to
boot the default kernel with the switch "acpi=off" added at boot time, but
then power management is not available. (So the fan will go 100% all the
time, etc.). It is therefore necessary to recompile the kernel without APIC
(yes: without APIC, and with ACPI (they conflict) and ACPI is what is
necessary for power management) to get power management features.
See the following for a detailed how-to for getting everything working: http://individual.utoronto.ca/noyes/projects/laptop/tuxtop.html
