On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 13:48, SI Reasoning wrote:
I have unfortunately discovered more problems with
APIC on my Dell Inspiron 8000. Even though I have
append = " devfs=mount quiet noapic", It does not
prevent any of the APIC problems. The most recent
issues to add to the horrors:
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I'm having the same problems on a P3/550 system using an abit BF6
motherboard w intel440BX chipset. Adding noapic to the kernel boot
helps nothing. As a matter of fact, the kernel enables APIC even when I
have it turned off in the bios. APIC has caused countless hard lockups,
most consistently during periods of no usage (i.e. overnight).
These problems do not occur with the pre-APIC kernels
(specifically, 2.4.16-11).
I'm having to re-compile the kernel every fscking time there is a new
release... As you can imagine, that takes quite a while...
Please either disable APIC from the standard kernel or
create a laptop specific kernel.
How about a generic noapic kernel... That would be most helpful...
Matt
