one more thing... append=noapic will not disable the part that crashes, unfortunately.
--- SI Reasoning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I disagree, > first, this is a major problem as it completely > freezes the box and it has to be turned off > manually. > > second, when you release a distribution it needs to > be > able to run on as many boxes as possible without > major > crashes, if you can turn off an item and it creates > more stable boxes, then you are less likely to lose > people, especially newbies > > thirdly, this is a feature that more experienced > users > will take advantage of and they are more than > qualified to rebuild their kernel. Mandrake is > geared > towards user friendlyness and having your system > crash > so easily is not user friendly. > > Because the Fn key is right next to the Ctrl key, > there has been quite a few times that I am trying to > change desktops and end up freezing the system. > > Finally, this feature has recently been turned on in > the kernel, prior kernels, esp in the 2.4.16 and > prior > did not have this turned on. It is not an > improvement > when the stock kernel creates more problems as it > progresses forward. Let the maintainers of APIC > resolve some of these issues and make this feature > more stable across many different types of boxes > before it becomes part of the default kernel. > > --- "J.A. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 20020130 SI Reasoning wrote: > > >APIC is still enabled in 2.4.17-12. > > >--- SI Reasoning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I am still having problems with my Dell > Inspiron > > >> 8000 > > >> that are APIC related. Please disable it in the > > >> production kernel. I am currently running > > >> 2.4.17-11mdk. > > >> > > > > So what ? > > > > APIC is good (TM) and works in many boxes, as it > is > > supposed to do. > > If your mobo-bios is broken, care yourself to > > install with > > append="noapic", or spam Dell to supply a fix. > > But do not try to cut a feature in a distro that > is > > usefull for > > everybody else. > > > > -- > > J.A. Magallon # Let the > > source be with you... > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 > > Linux werewolf 2.4.18-pre7-slb #2 SMP Tue Jan 29 > > 01:49:07 CET 2002 i686 > > > > > ===== > SI Reasoning > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "There never was a good war or a bad peace." > Benjamin Franklin > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! > http://auctions.yahoo.com > ===== SI Reasoning [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There never was a good war or a bad peace." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com
