-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 February 2003 04:18 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: > 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.
Do you know if there is anything that can be done about it being broken? - -- http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for pgp key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+VA+UsKWd3vub6wURAqhcAKCBP89VDFhApRLzJuZyolWJb4eAzQCfdf85 VDPjDhrSzNWg+ki6WznUlG4= =Ue5z -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
