I recently built and installed the 2.4.21pre4 kernel on my Mandrake 9.0 system. I have an Athlon 1.1GHz system with an MSI KT3 Ultra motherboard. If I disable APIC in the bios, the system refuses to bootup. I don't even get to a kernel panic - all I get (as soon as I select the kernel in lilo) is a blank screen and absolutely no activity whatsoever. If I hard reboot and enable APIC, then the system boots up fine but then I run into usb problems (my usb printer isn't "seen" or usable, my wusb11 is unusable). This bootup/non-bootup behavior occurs even if I use the "noapic" switch during bootup. I currently have 2.4.21pre4 up with the "noapic" switch and APIC enabled in bios. I am still unable to use my printer (HP Deskjet 845C) though it was visable enough to printerdrake for me to reset it up. When I try to print a testpage, my syslog produces a "printer no connected" message, even though it is connected.
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