-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 March 2003 12:31 pm, Henri wrote: > Gary Greene a �crit: > > 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 !!
I believe I'd have to second that since I have a Presario 700E notebook that has exactly this problem. Before now I've been having to use SuSE on it, but if I can use Mandrake with out difficulties, I'd prefer that. > 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 - -- Gary L. Greene, Jr. Sent from uriel.gvsu.edu 12:44:09 up 3 days, 4:24, 4 users, load average: 0.08, 0.22, 0.17 ============================================================ 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+biD2yPw381UL7WcRAuMbAJ9wYOktuC6rkRJffnGiOqwdJUGdIACfd5+P sLAQxJY8wIt4Za4SCfbWckk= =znEj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
