-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 March 2003 3:07 am, Henri wrote: > Thanks ! > 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...)
This is how SuSE gets around this problem. > And isn't it possible to use "noapic apci=on" on boot instead of > recompiling ? > > Sascha Noyes a �crit: > > 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 - -- Gary L. Greene, Jr. Sent from uriel.gvsu.edu 11:54:16 up 3 days, 3:35, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 ============================================================ Founder and president of the Grand Valley Linux Users Group. -=<http://www.gvlug.org>=- Chief Systems Architect, S4, Inc. - OS Department. -=<http://www.s4linux.com/>=- Project Lead for the Sentinel Linux OS Project (KOMODO) PHONE : 331-0562 EMAIL : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============================================================ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+bhWHyPw381UL7WcRAr/MAKCVAFoR1012NdoVKdUh6IxzXWn/3wCfedNz 3WKWYjAnnSyGKoSXpNd2n2Y= =KfKu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
