From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264106AbTE0UMW (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 16:12:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264121AbTE0UMW (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 16:12:22 -0400 Received: from pcp701542pcs.bowie01.md.comcast.net ([68.50.82.18]:54832 "EHLO lucifer.gotontheinter.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264106AbTE0UMU (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 16:12:20 -0400 Subject: Re: APIC on Dell Laptops - WAS: Re: [RFC] Fix NMI watchdog documentation From: Disconnect To: lkml In-Reply-To: <1053978298.6152.25.camel@slappy> References: <200305260921.h4Q9LcNr022536@harpo.it.uu.se> <1053967225.5948.12.camel@slappy> <16082.24332.881881.965677@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <1053978298.6152.25.camel@slappy> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1054067120.6085.4.camel@slappy> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 27 May 2003 16:25:20 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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