-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:38 am, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > Praedor Atrebates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I recently built and installed the 2.4.21pre4 kernel on my Mandrake 9.0 > > system. I have an Athlon 1.1GHz system with an MSI KT3 Ultra > > motherboard. If I disable APIC in the bios, the system refuses to bootup. > > I don't even get to a kernel panic - all I get (as soon as I select the > > kernel in lilo) is a blank screen and absolutely no activity whatsoever. > > If I hard reboot and enable APIC, then the system boots up fine but then > > I run into usb problems (my usb printer isn't "seen" or usable, my wusb11 > > is unusable). This bootup/non-bootup behavior occurs even if I use the > > "noapic" switch during bootup. I currently have 2.4.21pre4 up with the > > "noapic" switch and APIC enabled in bios. I am still unable to use my > > printer (HP Deskjet 845C) though it was visable enough to printerdrake > > for me to reset it up. When I try to print a testpage, my syslog > > produces a "printer no connected" message, even though it is connected. > > what kind of usb driver ? if 'usb-uhci' can you switch to 'uhci' > (changes in /etc/modules.conf)
I am going to retract this report until I do more testing with my system. I found an error in my lilo.conf append line...instead of "noapic" on my default kernel entry (2.4.21pre4), it was "napic". Correcting this brought back the printer but not the wusb11, but it is a problematic device in any case with a very buggy driver. After a reboot or two, if the no boot on APIC disable remains, I will report it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+W2V9wDUPEkSvRHERAgioAJ4ooUi2NFUPnShf23EF5xJDD9u26QCgz+Mm HLw6DZMy8vX7NcQSFlpmTec= =faj9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
