-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 March 2003 11:23, Thomas Backlund wrote: > Viestiss� Tiistai 11. Maaliskuuta 2003 16:46, Sascha Noyes kirjoitti: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Tuesday 11 March 2003 03:07, 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...) > > > > > > And isn't it possible to use "noapic apci=on" on boot instead of > > > recompiling ? > > > > Well, unfortunately I don't know too much about kernels, but here is what > > I have gleaned at the moment: > > > > It seems to be possible to automatically disable APIC on certain > > motherboards. I found this out by checking the changelogs that the > > mandrake kernel developers wrote for the last two versions of the kernel: > > "- disable local apic in more boards." > > I've asked which files store the information on which board gets local > > apic disabled, but understandably I did not get a response. I've just > > checked with the latest kernel, and booting still does not work with acpi > > enabled, which means that the presario 7xx boards do not have local apic > > disabled. > > take a look at arch/i386/kernel/dmi_scan.c > > it lists several buggy systems... > > We need output of dmiscan to add more buggy ones to the list.... > > Thomas
Excellent, but how do I run dmiscan? Are you talking about dmi_scan.o ? How would I run that? Is dmiscan perhaps in a package I have not installed (in which)? Thanks, Sascha Noyes - -- Please encrypt all correspondence. PGP key available from: http://individual.utoronto.ca/noyes/snoyes.asc - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+bnX6gzJdfX+cTW8RAkztAJ49tHdk2vZKUyfkVGkMoDxQgT579QCgnWwW 8M5MOgzzzY29nWopfAtvQic= =v1Nn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
