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SubjectRe: inspiron 8100 freezing
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/>.

/Mikael
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