Dell Inspiron 8200

Dell Inspiron 8200

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Hello,
I've compiled the 2.4.21 kernel version recently and I do a "dmesg" and it 
shows: 

Dell Inspiron with broken BIOS detected. Refusing to enable the local APIC. 

Someone knows about this? May I disable the local APIC in the kernel?
I don't have any acpi patch at the moment.
If someone has experience with ACPI + Dell Inspiron 8200, I would like to 
listen any comment about that. 

Cheers...


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Re: Dell Inspiron 8200

[Gunter Ohrner]

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Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2003 12:53 schrieb v1k1ng0-s8PdfxpoPdHk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org:
> May I disable the local APIC in the kernel?

Yes, support for a local APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) is 
a kernel configuration option. However as the kernel disables it 
automatically on your system due to the BIOS blacklist it probably won't 
change anything for you.

Greetings,

  Gunter

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