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
