-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jaco Greeff wrote: > Buchan Milne wrote: > >> Jaimon Jose wrote: >> >>> I upgraded my Dell latitude C640 laptop to 9.2. > > <snip> > >> 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,
I think the issue may have been addressed by recent cooker kernels (2.4.22.13mdk and later) due to the acpi update (from 2.4.23pre6 according to the changelog), but can't test it easily myself. > but for the time being I'm > happy. Now we just need to alert users somehow, an errata maybe? Vince? Can you adjust the nolapic errata to include something along the lines of "Laptops supporting Intel Speedstep crash when removing the machine from, or placing it on power" or similar. > 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. Can you test with a 2.4.22.13mdk or later kernel to see if it is fixed? I would have to make a new livecd to test ... Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/lrr7rJK6UGDSBKcRArjfAKC0uw0m15XyRUGM6W9Lq0Yc93GdngCgrMNv KeY5p7C5HgDmLcLpnPPzk4o= =9POt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
