--- tester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SI Reasoning wrote: > > > --- tester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Do you have any idea how many people submitted bug > >>reports bexcause APIC > >>was off and their machines would not boot the > >>installer? Almost > >>everyone with multiprocessors and more than 2 IDE > >>channels. > >> > >>Obviously we are trying to see what the effects > are > >>each way, and there > >>might be an alternate install image, but the > problem > >>is that people > >>never look for those. > >> > >> > > > > At least we know where the problems are. If there > are > > no other major issues then it sounds like it > should be > > enabled for the smp kernel. Hoever, more than 2 > ide's > > is not as standard as a laptop and I think it > should > > be disabled in the standard kernel. This looks > like > > something that may be best setup as a module at > some > > point. > > > It _is_ enabled in the SMP kernel but it is also a > UP kernel to install with and it strill fails. > > > > As a matter of fact our failure rate on laptops is > very high, APIC or > not. That is because there are a lot of dodges > employed by laptop > makers and compatibility with standards is restored > by software they > write for windows. If you have ever tried to > install windows on any > laptop without the restore disk or restore CD, you > know well of what I > speak. > > And the particular one you speak of is best served > by an alternate > install kernel and an alternate running kernel > because there is a huge > BIOS bug as well. Try to run kernel 2.4 from anyone > with 512M of RAM > and you will see "bad bridge mapping" errors. The
hmmm I have 512 meg ram on my Dell Inspiron 8000, and I checked my logs for this error message and could not find it. > APIC error is also a > BIOS bug--have seen it before on an inspiron that > was trying everything > to run kernel 2.4 with 512M. He ended up running > kernel 2.2 and writing > to Dell. > > Civileme There were some problems before with the 2.4.16 series kernel (pre APIC) that I was able to route around. The suspend is pretty worthless since it hard freezes so I had to disable it in the bios. I suspect it is an XFree issue though since I did not have the freeze problem when I suspended in init 3. It actually suspended properly and came back properly. I have an ATI M4 video chipset. However since APIC it has become a total nightmare and it has become way to easy to freeze it. ===== SI Reasoning [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There never was a good war or a bad peace." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com
