The only way I've found to thwart the desire for the kernel to turn on APIC is to remove it from the kernel. Even with noapic in the command line and APIC turned off in BIOS it still wanted to turn it on on my boxes. Rebuilding a kernel and removing it did work.
James On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 08:39, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'll try that in the future. Does this work alright with wireless devices > though? If it first sets thing up via apic which is anathema to functional > wlan devices, does it undo itself and does the system (usb or pcmcia) reset > to correct the initial apic error? > > praedor > > On Sunday 26 January 2003 10:58 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > 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. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+NA8/wDUPEkSvRHERAp3fAJ4jCF3Ik8+7xU6zNdrt9JhdsFgzjwCfWtZc > /4+j7ta5LdaVJzbCVXilAE4= > =DnXa > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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