Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 29 Aug 2002 17:33:38 -0700 (PDT) | From | mike heffner <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: conflict between apm and system clock on Inspiron 8100 |
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Hi Shephen,
I tried this early on, but I just tried it again to make sure. There is no noticeable effect from setting apm=allow_ints at the boot prompt. So either my command is not getting set, or the BIOS itself is restricting the interrupts? Is there a way to check that I did indeed allow interrupts? I don't know much about BIOS hacking, any suggestions about how to get the code for the BIOS (other than disassembling it)? I bet Dell isn't going to give it to me. I am struggling to get them to even understand the problem.
Thanks, Mike
--- Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote: > > OK, for the Dells, we autodetect the 4000 series and > allow > interrupts during BIOS calls, but not the 8000's > (unless > your RedHat patched kernel does this). So could you > try > booting with "apm=allow_ints" on the command line > (or load > the apm modules with "allow_ints=1"). and try again. > If > this changes things, then we need to add the 8100 to > the > list of things we automatically allow interrupts > for. > > The default from the very beginning has been to > disable interrupts > and on most machines this works fine. The option of > leaving > interrupts enabled was introduced when we discovered > that the > Thinkpads won't resume if you disable them ... >
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