Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: APIC on Dell Laptops - WAS: Re: [RFC] Fix NMI watchdog documentation | From | Disconnect <> | Date | 27 May 2003 16:25:20 -0400 |
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On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 14:38, mikpe@csd.uu.se wrote: > Disconnect writes: > > Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling. > > Found and enabled local APIC! > > > > And now /proc/cpuinfo and cpuid both show APIC support. > > > > Removed/replaced power, triggered lid-switch/battery-status/etc with no > > issues. (The only thing that caused trouble was Fn-F10, the "eject cd" > > button. Never tried it under Linux before, and the cd isn't in it at > > the moment anyway, so I'm betting thats unrelated. But it did cause a > > lockup that even sysrq couldn't recover.) > > Nice.
..and it gets better. Not sure what the exact problem is (updated DRM, X etc) but Fn-F8 (CRT/LCD) hardlocks. With the no-APIC kernel (same new DRM and so forth) it just hesitates (not sure if it works or not, haven't got a monitor handy.) It worked (or at least didn't lock up) when I initially tried it, but now I can reproduce it well before X comes up.
Looks like it should be dropped from the whitelist :( (To recap, this is the Inspiron 8500 w/ A02 bios)
-- Disconnect <lkml@sigkill.net>
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