I am speaking of APIC, as far as I know APM is still used as the default power manager as ACPI is still immature in Linux.
The defualt kernel does not even enable ACPI and in the recent past did not enable APIC. Unfortunately, APIC is enabled in the current kernel and it is creating havoc among some laptop users (especially Dell users). There is supposed to be a way of disabling it on bootup append=noapic, but this does not resolve the problems with the laptops. --- Christopher Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On Monday 04 Feb 2002 11:23 pm, SI Reasoning wrote: > > > Unfortunately, the situation is so bad now with > the > > kernel, if the power plug becomes unplugged at any > > time and the my Dell Inspiron 8000 goes on battery > > power, I get a complete freeze. How many UP boxes > must > > have APIC enabled? So far, Mandrake had been one > of > > the best at installing on laptops out of the box, > but > > with APIC they may now become one of the worst. > There > > are lots of things I can route around but this > problem > > is pretty severe. > > I've been trying to follow this thread for some > time, and getting more and > more confused about whether people are talking about > a problem with the > IO-APIC support (enhanced interrupt controller), > ACPI support (power > management) or both ? > > cheers, > Chris > - -- > Christopher Samuel [dstl] > +44 1684 771134 > L007, DSTL, St Andrews Road, Malvern, UK - DSTL is > part of the UK MoD > DISCLAIMER: The views expressed above are just > those of the author and > do not represent the views, policy or understanding > of any other entity > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iQCVAwUBPF/vElJ7nmUlvnM9AQE8GwP9Hy3v6YPJvpZZT2M+GEdrFT64KEzfewbs > 5/9h6yLXgz30XLVrMGrEcrUPHiHAQNFxZF9z2yMtCs7J8WfpDpWEDhQ915wJe+nU > 1KMRZs+wk3eO2nmX8B5dBDsCGZdvgEr4Xn6yL1TH36EUtWl/DnavRPQxzKfEq/WZ > W1f9grLNpBI= > =Sppi > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com
