On Thursday 21 February 2002 02:04, SI Reasoning wrote: > The kernel in 8.1 did not have APIC enabled.
I am also using a Dell laptop. It seems that any BIOS event locks the laptop completely, whether it is unplug the power cord or BIOS display timeout or manual display blanking. Something like 2.4.13 works, which I am using right now, but all 2.4.17 and after kernels are completely unusable. I predict that this APIC thing is going to be a big problem. I personally have not been able to test new cooker kernels because of this, and if I can not upgrade to 8.2 if the kernel has APIC enabled. Yes, I know, I can compile the kernel myself without it, but laptops are not the fastests machines around, and if the boot kernel from the cdrom, for example, has APIC enabled, to get the system upgraded in the first place requires lots of precations (UPS, disable the display timeout, do not touch Fn-D etc...), or the system will be fucked. Why it is enabled in the first place, by the way? I understand that SMP requires it, but for UP kernels, it seems quite unnecessary, and very few people would benefit from it. I read somewhere that SuSE people added a kernel option "disableapic" which disables APIC completely--the "noapic" option is not sufficient. Teemu
