Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Jan 2003 05:49:23 -0800 (PST) | From | Alessandro Suardi <> | Subject | Re: "Latitude with broken BIOS" ? |
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> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 05:28:49AM -0800, Alessandro Suardi wrote: > > > > > "Dell Latitude with broken BIOS detected. Refusing to enable the local APIC." > > > > > > Lots of Dell laptops (like other vendors) crash instantly when trying to > > > enable the APIC. > > > > Well my Dells power off on rebooting from 2.5... bug 119 or 134 in > > http://bugme.osdl.org, no need to resort to messing with the APIC ;( > > That one IMO looks like an ACPI problem (Note ACPI != APIC)
More like PM in general, happens with my older Latitude with APM as well (I was making a point of ease of crashing, not confusing APIC and ACPI ;)
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