Hello Neuromancer, Thursday, January 31, 2002, 1:28:47 AM, you wrote:
N> Thus spake SI Reasoning about Life, the Universe, and Everything: N> | I disagree, N> | first, this is a major problem as it completely N> | freezes the box and it has to be turned off manually. N> Then turn it off manually. Be nice if I could, but I need to be able to install Mandrake before I can go rebuilding the kernel ffs!! N> Yell at Dell. Not Mandrake. The APIC code in the kernel seems to be at fault NOT the hardware. This is am issue for Mandrake as their current codebase is crashing on certain hardware. N> So far, it appears that there is only one person complaining about this. And to N> the wrong folks, it seems. Si is certainly NOT the only person complaining. I complained about the APIC support last week. Hard locks my AMD 760MPX based box. N> | progresses forward. Let the maintainers of APIC N> | resolve some of these issues and make this feature N> | more stable across many different types of boxes N> | before it becomes part of the default kernel. N> I'm pretty sure that's what they did. Wasn't it labeled as experimental until N> recently? If it's no longer labeled as experimental it means they have found N> and squashed all KNOWN bugs. You may have found another. Call Dell. IMO (and experience) it should still be labelled experimental :-) -- Best regards, Rob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
