On Fri Aug 10 18:44:19 EDT 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have an odd machine which doesn't work right in the brave new APIC
> world (for example, VESA mode can draw windows and menus but not paint
> the cursor...?).

you wouldn't happen to have usb legacy support enabled in bios, would you?

(unfortunately apic is no longer the brave new world.  in fact, it's getting
a bit harder to get newer machines to work based on mp tables alone.
msi is getting to be assumed.)

> Looking around it seems like *nomce is like *nomp, but *noetherprobe,
> *nousbprobe, *nobios, *pcibios, *nopcirouting, *norealmode, etc., all are
> the "old way" (presence is all that matters, not the right hand side).
> 
> Isn't there an argument for all of these working the same way?

there sure is.

- erik

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