Hi Tomaž, > > LAPIC = Local Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller > (local refering to a CPU in a SMP system having its own controller) Yes, local, but what does local mean? Is it hardware related or local in the software?
> ACPI and APM are system features directly related to power management > (with ACPI replacing APM in recent hardware). They handle battery > charging, putting system in sleep modes, etc. > Ok, this will be controlled by the BIOS, I suppose, and there is no way, to deactivate it ion the BIOS completeley as the kernel has to interact with the BIOS? > "Complete software ACPI independent from hardware" isn't possible. In > the end, you need some cooperation from hardware to trip a switch if you > want the computer to power off after shutdown. > Yes, like I guessed above.... > APIC and LAPIC are related to power management only in the way that > power management related peripherals can trigger interrupts that are > configured through them. But so does the USB controller, disk drives, etc. > When I add "nolapic" to the kernel , then everything is working fine, but then one of the two cores disappeared. Would be nice, if I could have both cores, you might understand. :) All in all, I can run the notebook (it is no need to put it into trash). It is an Amilo pa 2510, 2x1,7 GHz AMD Dualcore CPU, with 4,6 GB RAM and a 320GB harddrive. I am using it as my kali-machine. And such bugs are also good to learn things. > Best regards > Tomaž Best regards Hans