On 7 Dec, Simon Oliver wrote: > >> Looking at the BIOS(couldn't see a make, but it's number is A02) > That's the latest BIOS revision for your machine, see: > > http://support.euro.dell.com/uk/en/home.asp?sid=DIM_PNT_P4_4300 > >> Trouble is the only other choice is S1, which is even worse. >> It seems that S1 and S3 are the ACPI Suspend Modes, but how can I turn >> these off? Or use them properly? > > We've got a Dell Precision Workstation that wouldn't boot Linux - I got > a Kernel Panic, something about a bug in apic.c. The first solution was > to disable APIC in the system BIOS but then the machine wouldn't boot > Win2K (dual boot). So I added [append = "disableapic"] to the > lilo.conf, ran lilo, re-enabled APIC in the BIOS and now both Win2K and > Linux (SuSE 7.2 / Kernel 2.4.4) are happy. > > Perhaps you could try one of these?
APIC and ACPI are different animals... ACPI is an enhancement of APM (you just love all thes abbreviations don't you?) It got me confused a wee bit when I go my new laptop and played around with 2.4.xx.. The ACPI suspend support is not finished yet, and ACPI should be treated very ALPHA/Experimental at this stage. Some bits of ACPI do work, but the more useful bit don't... John -- John Heaton JWCS (JANET Web Cache Services), Manchester Computing The University, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13-9PL, UK pstn://+44-161-275-6011/Hello/Is.Dat-U? fax://+44-161-275-6040/screech/warble/sssshhhh/beepbeep http://voyager.mcc.ac.uk/
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