Jaimon Jose wrote:<snip>I upgraded my Dell latitude C640 laptop to 9.2.
It *should* be possible (AFAIK) to have the same effect by booting with the 'nolapic' option, but I haven't seen any reports of whether it helps or not, and haven't been able to test with any of our Dell machines.
Ok, my Dell Latitude C610 had the same problem. I've made the change to pass 'nolapic' on boot and unplugging/plugging the power cable works flawlessly now. The #1 prize would obviously be if this can be do automagically via a detection mechanism, but for the time being I'm happy. Now we just need to alert users somehow, an errata maybe?
Jaco
PS: This is using a tmb kernel, although it should work on the standard MDK one as well. I previously saw the problem on both.
