On Saturday January 25 2003 11:18 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > Praedor, I know I'm not expert enough to help you with your > problem, but I thought I'd throw this in - with APIC turned on or > off, dmesg always has these 2 lines: > > Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. > Found and enabled local APIC! > > Thats with the 9.0 powerpack, stock kernel, on my Soyo Dragon Plus > motherboard.
I believe if you'll look further down in dmesg, apic gets turned off again later on if you have "noapic" in lilo.conf's append line. That's from memory, I don't bother disabling apic anymore. I also have a Soyo, disabling it wasn't needed. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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