From: Alessandro Suardi <ALESSANDRO.SUARDI@oracle.com>
To: davej@codemonkey.org.uk
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "Latitude with broken BIOS" ?
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 05:49:23 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <60396.1043070563692.JavaMail.nobody@web55.us.oracle.com> (raw)
> 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 ;)
--alessandro
next reply other threads:[~2003-01-20 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-20 13:49 Alessandro Suardi [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-23 8:55 "Latitude with broken BIOS" ? Brouard Nicolas
2003-05-23 9:02 ` mikpe
2003-05-23 21:04 ` Brouard Nicolas
2003-05-23 17:41 ` Mark Watts
2003-01-20 15:23 Alessandro Suardi
2003-01-20 15:02 Mikael Pettersson
2003-01-20 14:38 Alessandro Suardi
2003-01-20 14:13 Mikael Pettersson
2003-01-20 13:28 Alessandro Suardi
2003-01-20 13:41 ` Dave Jones
2003-01-20 12:31 Alessandro Suardi
2003-01-20 13:19 ` Dave Jones
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