Re: local APIC may cause XFree86 hang

[Mikael Pettersson]

Alan Cox writes:
 > On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 22:29, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
 > > Does XFree86 (its core or particular drivers) use vm86() to
 > > invoke, possibly graphics card specific, BIOS code?
 > > That would explain the hangs I got. The fix would be to
 > > disable the local APIC around vm86()'s BIOS calls, just like
 > > we now disable it before APM suspend.
 > 
 > It does yes

Ok. I'll start working on a patch to vm86() tomorrow.

/Mikael