Sorry for the dummy question, but what would be the drawback of having Local APIC disabled?
Thanks, Bruno. On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 15:56:33 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 09:51:46AM -0300, Bruno Diniz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a Compaq Presario 2100 laptop and since the earlier 2.6.0 > > kernel the boot sequence hangs when trying to initialize ACPI. At that > > time, somebody sent me a patch that solved the problem. Since then, > > I've been checking whether the newest kernel-image-xxx package has > > added this patch or something else that solved the problem. So far, it > > seems nothing has been done. > > > > The problem is with the APIC timer, and the patch I'm sending attached > > disables APIC timer while initializing ACPI and re-enables again after > > ACPI initialization finishes. Could you please analyse this patch to > > figure out whether it could be included on the official debian kernel > > releases? > > > > I can confirm this issue. An easy workaround I used is the 'nolapic' flag > on boot when acpi is on. BTW I had the same problem with 2.4.26 and 2.6 > series. > > -- > Francesco P. Lovergine > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Bruno Diniz de Paula
