Messages in this thread |  | | From | Brouard Nicolas <> | Subject | Re: "Latitude with broken BIOS" ? | Date | Fri, 23 May 2003 23:04:11 +0200 |
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Yes acpi=off solved the APM problem. I am able to suspend my laptop again! In Mandrake Control Center, in the Lilo parameter options the acpi=off or acpi=on is prepared! There is a second option which can be set: "noapic". There is no other option. But by default, it was acpi=on and apic.
Thanks a lot! Nicolas Brouard Le Vendredi 23 Mai 2003 11:02, mikpe@csd.uu.se a écrit : > Brouard Nicolas writes: > > 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? > > The "$machine with broken BIOS detected, refusing to enable the local APIC" > message only affects the local APIC and the few services using it like the > NMI watchdog and some performance measurement/profiling tools. > It has no impact on whether APM works or not. > > Possibly Mandrake 9.1 detects ACPI (not APIC) which would disable APM. > Try booting with "noacpi" or "acpi=off" or whatever the option is called.
-- Nicolas Brouard
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