I agree, this is probably somehow related with SiS chipset - my laptop has one of these SiS 760 host controllers inside.
I'll probably do some digging to figure out if this is indeed chipset related. I wonder if this error occurs under Windows (Win does not report much, yet it's kernel must be aware of such error). Konstantin On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 09:10 -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Konstantin Sharlaimov wrote: > > > I am experiencing the similar problem on my Acer Aspire 5000 laptop - > > once in a while a bunch of "APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)" messages are > > showing up in dmesg. > > > > After few experiments and a lot of googling, I identified a cause - it > > was my built-in wireless card! Disabling IO-APIC helped, besides a > > single "Spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7" message while booting up there > > was nothing unusual. > > > > A did some further experiments on various hardware and from my > > experience I can tell that "APIC error" messages are entirely hardware > > related. > > > > Regards, > > Konstantin > > Thanks for the follow-up, yeah its probably one of the Promise > controllers or some such that is causing the problem, although I > remmeber I used to get the error with only the motherboard, memory and > video card, something tells me that MSI board with (SiS) chipset is > not quite supported in Linux with APIC enabled. > > Justin. > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
