-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 March 2003 20:06, Thomas Backlund wrote: > Viestiss� Torstai 13. Maaliskuuta 2003 01:06, Henri kirjoitti: > > so, that's fun to talk about Iraq, but is there any solution found for > > the APCI bug concerning sacha's US presario ? > > This is a the mdk standard kernel linux-2.4.21-0.13mdk + my changes: > http://www.iki.fi/tmb/Cooker/linux-2.4.21-0.13mdk-TmB.Fix1.tar.bz2 > > Just unzip/untar it to / and run the included Install, and reboot... > > I already requested some Compaq Presario 7xx users to verify that > this kernel disables the APIC on their laptops without disabling the > ACPI, or atleast work with acpi=off... > but so far no reply... > > So _please_ try this kernel and let me know.... > boot with and without acpi=off... > > The idea is that it should disable the APIC on the complete > Presario 7xx series until we get correct info if there is some > in that series that actually works with APIC enabled... > > Thomas
Hi Thomas Thanks for your work, it is really appreciated - and sorry for taking so long to reply. I installed your kernel modification package and everything works perfectly, I just had to add battery, processor etc. to /etc/modules (Before when I recompiled my kernel I just changed the acpi stuff from modules to hardcoded) So what did you change - did you put some sort of "presario 7xx" into dmi_scan.c ? I presume that this is too late to get into 9.1, oh well - too bad. Mandrake would have been the first distro to run flawlessly on 7xx. Too bad that I only knew about this apic blacklisting until a few days ago. Should I put up a small page on the Mandrake wiki asking people with presario 7xx laptops to contribute their model specifications or can we blacklist all 7xx's (looking ahead to 9.2) ? Maybe I should contribute a presario 7xx kernel RPM, I'd have to look into that. Or I could just host and "market" that package I downloaded from you? What are your thoughts on this (as you're evidently a whole lot more informed on this subject than I am)? 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+cCbMgzJdfX+cTW8RAkFEAJ4wNeWaanPzXtUitOhcJ4DXA917sACeLsA3 gFk/RBoPFiXH9n3XEcllCJ8= =UNIw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
