Messages in this thread |  | | From | Mark Watts <> | Subject | Re: "Latitude with broken BIOS" ? | Date | Fri, 23 May 2003 18:41:37 +0100 |
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On Friday 23 May 2003 9:55 am, Brouard Nicolas wrote: > I am not well aware of what APIC is but I was running Mandrake 8.2 on my > Linux partition of a Dell Pentium III latitude 550 MHz and I don't remember > such a dmesg message. But when I upgraded to Mandrake 9.1 here it is. The > problem I have is that I can't have any suspend mode any more neither > battery indicators and /etc/rc.d/init.d/apm start claims that apm is no > more in the kernel. Is it linked to that APIC problem and this BIOS > problem, why did it work earlier? Do you think that if I found a new bios > from Dell it will help? > > Any information will be greatly appreciated (I am sorry no to be able to > change my laptop so frequently...)
On my Latitute C610, I have to boot with ACPI=off under Mandrake 9.1 otherwise nothing power related works. This allows the kernel to revery back to APM and you get battery status things et al.
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