Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:21:31 +0100 (MET) | From | Mikael Pettersson <> | Subject | Re: inspiron 8100 freezing |
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On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:34:18 -0800, Ian Eure wrote: >Hi there. My shiny new Dell Inspiron 8100 arrived in the mail today... >... >However, the system locks hard when I boot it up. The point where it dies >varies - it got as far as starting cron one time. > >Compiled a vanilla 2.4.17 & got the exact same thing. I'm not doing anything >exotic. > >ACPI is disabled, APM is configured thusly:
I bet you have CONFIG_SMP or CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC enabled. In that case the hangs on the Inspiron are expected: it's BIOS is buggy.
A quick fix is to disable those two options. The proper fix is to complain to Dell and tell them to fix their damn BIOS, then get a 2.4.18-pre or -rc kernel, and apply these patches
patch-boot-time-ioremap patch-early-dmi-scan patch-dmi-apic-fixups
from <http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/kernel-patches/2.4/>.
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