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Panagiotis Melas wrote:
|It is not an SMP machine for sure, the mainboard is Gigabyte 7VXH something
|with network interface and sound card. The processor is AMD Athlon 1500+
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|it seems that many people get that warning io-apic but I cannot understand
|why somehow the kernel is getting confused with SMP flags. Do you think that
|the dual bios feature of the mainboard is responsible but this is common to
|all gigabyte ones ...
|
|I might have to compile the kernel on my own then or use 2.5..... ?
And keep watching the http://mandrakeforum.com/ and the ML 9.0 Errata and Troubleshooting.
Larry
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|>|>| Hello,
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|>|>| I've posted the same problem before few weeks ago but none of the
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|>|It is not easy to describe, it is very similar like doing apm -s
|>(suspend)
|>|every 10 min on a desktop i.e. X-windows disapear I guess it goes into
|>text
|>|mode and then goes completely blank and then it comes up. In total it
|>takes 3-4
|>|seconds. From the computer box I can hear a characteristic noise (a
|>relay?)
|>|when it changes mode from graphs to text mode...
|>|
|>|
|>|I had uninstalled all apm and xscreensaver packages, login in safe mode
|>or
|>|text mode or GNOME, blackbox, etc with no success so far. Screensavers
|>are
|>|configured to run every 5 min and apm if that runs every 15 min.
|>|
|>|If apmd is not running the only log message I get is that of the network
|>|card only, when apmd is running I get more messages indicating that
|>there is a
|>|suspend mode as you saw in the previous e-mail.
|>|
|>|I suspect there is something wrong with the kernel itself that causes
|>that
|>|at least for my h/w? but as I told you Mandrake 8.2 was running without
|>this
|>|problem.
|>|
|>|Is there anyway to get more information?
|>|
|>|Panos
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|>
|>I admit to not following your messages fully so with that in mind...
|>
|>You appear to be running a motherboard with SMP,
|>
|>1. Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1 Virtual Wire compatibility
|>mode.
|>However your messages indicate only a single processor kernel in being
|>installed.
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|>2. Linux version 2.4.19-16mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc
|>version 3.2
|>(Mandrake Linux 9.0 3.2-1mdk)) #1 Fri Sep 20 18:15:05 CEST 2002
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|>You also have an error for your APIC: |>
|>3. WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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|>As for the program 'apm', if you are running a SMP system then you
|>should not have this program. Normally the SMP kernel will disable this
|>when booting.
|>
|>I have also problems with the SMP kernel and a TB Santa Cruz sound card
|>I'm working on which was running flawless under ML 8.2. Something is
|>quite different in ML 9.0.
|>
|>Can you post your system hardware.
|>
|>Larry
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