-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 19 February 2003 05:18 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.
I've got a Compaq Presario 700 series laptop. I had to recompile the kernel and leave away apic to get acpi to function. The only way that I have tested the functionality of acpi is wrt cpu & fan throttling, shutdown and reboot. These all work fine. Which acpi functions depend on apic? How will acpi missbehave if apic is not installed. Any remedies? Thank you very much, Sascha Noyes - -- Please encrypt all correspondence. PGP key available from: http://individual.utoronto.ca/noyes/snoyes.asc - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+VBLLgzJdfX+cTW8RAgx/AKCWZL7XPl3yHsxHS4/EMqao/+HqAwCfYkLa On4KmOJzx4GPIkGvdOlHnCM= =vyoB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
