so does that mean i need to disable the apic? and are we talking about apic
now or acpi? im getting all these devices confused now. i realize that acpi
is dissabled when you press number 2 at the boot menu but are we talking
about that or apic?

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 11:03:16PM +0100, Dieter wrote:
> > > > > > the next step im going
> > > > > > to take is installing 6.2 and remaking the world but adding
> device
> > > > > > aptic to the kernel.
> > > > >
> > > > > I think you mean "device apic" to the kernel?
> > > >
> > > > No, it is "device aptic".  It was in 6 but removed from 7.  I had to
> add
> > > > aptic to get my nforce4-ultra board to boot 7.  Given that 6 runs on
> > > > Shaun's machine and 7 doesn't, adding aptic is a useful thing to
> try.
> > >
> > > There is no "aptic" device on RELENG_6.  I just did a grep -ri "aptic"
> > > /usr/src on our RELENG_6 box and found absolutely no trace of said
> > > device.  You are thinking of "apic".
> >
> > Typo.  Should be "device atpic".
>
> Ah yes.  That would be the classic AT-style PIC used for interrupt
> handling.  That makes much more sense.  :-)
>
> --
> | Jeremy Chadwick                                jdc at parodius.com |
> | Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
> | UNIX Systems Administrator                  Mountain View, CA, USA |
> | Making life hard for others since 1977.              PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
>
>
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