-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 March 2003 12:46, Buchan Milne wrote: > Henri wrote: > > Gary Greene a �crit: > > > > 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 !! > > Maybe Sascha can make a kernel rpm for the Compaq?
I've been thinking about this ever since I got everything running. It depends though - Much more elegant would be to get a large number of these laptops listed in dmi_scan.c as Thomas Backlund suggested. But it might be too close to release now (at least if I can get the 732US (mine) in then I will be glad). Or is it perhaps possible to do a wildcard on Compaq Presario 7xx in dmi_scan.c or is that very unprofessional? As far as I know all Presario 7xx laptops have these problems and even if some of them don't (which I doubt), is there any harm in disabling local apic for them? If there are no problems there then the benefit of disabling local apic in all 7xx should outweigh the problems. And if that is not doable what FM do I look at for building a presario 7xx kernel RPM? the "rpm howto" ? (http://www.mandrakelinux.com/howtos/mdk-rpm/) Best, 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+bnmugzJdfX+cTW8RAk3QAKCSIGoBA0gGnWR1LWVYKRFibInSjACfTIqp 9zLL3aRdLmnbUFc2slLWvhY= =v/be -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
