Resending as it didn't seem to have gotten through the first time: > Thanks Marco, noapic worked beautifully. now my clock is very much in > tune with what time should be like, however, now, my box will not > recieve a dhcp ip address whenever i use this option to boot my kernel. > any suggestions?
To be honest I have no idea, as my previous suggestion already was an uneducated guess. That said, there is another closely related kernel option nolapic that you might want to try (just remember to always keep an extra entry in grub.conf for a kernel with working settings). By this I mean try both noapic and nolapic together. Maybe this is all fixed in a future kernel, so you might want to try Duncans advice and testdrive a new kernel. Turning on DMA on your hdd, as Andy suggested, will only help performance, maybe it will also clear out your problems - have you checked this? Use hdparm, for example "hdparm /dev/hda" to find out if dma is enabled. It might also be possible to find something looking at the output of: tail -n 100 /var/log/messages | less dmesg | less You might want to check them for anything unusual. One further note: if you're like me and get APIC and ACPI messed up all the time, you might want to check out (I love wikipedia!): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACPI Good luck! Marco -- [email protected] mailing list
