-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 February 2003 04:36 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Wednesday 19 February 2003 04:26 pm, Jeremy Salch wrote: > > Feb 19 15:16:20 pr2 kernel: Dell Inspiron with broken BIOS detected. > > Refusing to enable the local APIC. > > > > > > would this have something to do with ACPI not working properly on a Dell > > Inspiron 8200 > > How can what seems like every machine have a broken BIOS with respect to > apic. At some point do we look at the kernel implementation and try to fix > that instead of saying everybody else is screwed up.
I need to clarify my point in that although the question was about acpi, I was addressing the error message, not the question. The answer to the question is that the acpi implementation depends on the apic, so if the apic does not work properly, acpi will not work properly either. - -- Greg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+VALRGu5uuMFlL5MRAsfqAJwJp+LW9tAOeb4PqLjyz/z5lqXV1QCfQCCa qyD/NBb3kzEMSPHOZcCGaYI= =0gKQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
