On Friday 23 May 2003 9:55 am, Brouard Nicolas wrote:
> I am not well aware of what APIC is but I was running Mandrake 8.2 on my
> Linux partition of a Dell Pentium III latitude 550 MHz and I don't remember
> such a dmesg message. But when I upgraded to Mandrake 9.1 here it is. The
> problem I have is that I can't have any suspend mode any more neither
> battery indicators and /etc/rc.d/init.d/apm start claims that apm is no
> more in the kernel. Is it linked to that APIC problem and this BIOS
> problem, why did it work earlier? Do you think that if I found a new bios
> from Dell it will help?
>
> Any information will be greatly appreciated (I am sorry no to be able to
> change my laptop so frequently...)
On my Latitute C610, I have to boot with ACPI=off under Mandrake 9.1 otherwise
nothing power related works. This allows the kernel to revery back to APM and
you get battery status things et al.
Mark.
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