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.
Am i supposed to switch my notebook to another distrib "just" for that ? It is quit important for a notebook and i think that this mandrake version was supposed to be a easier one for notebook : zeroconf, switchprofiles...and apci is one of the main new features, so can't there be a special kernel for the buggy bios ? PLEEEAASE !!
About compiling a kernel, getting the kernel-source rpm, editing the config file and using rpm --rebuild should be ok, shouldn't it ?
While talking about the kernel, isn't there anymore the kernel-header package ?? That means we have to download all sources just to compil an new driver (NVIDIA for ex) ???
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
