Re: "Latitude with broken BIOS" ?

[Brouard Nicolas]

Yes acpi=off solved the APM problem.
I am able to suspend my laptop again!
In Mandrake Control Center, in the Lilo parameter options the acpi=off or 
acpi=on is prepared! There is a second option which can be set: "noapic". 
There is no other option.
But by default, it was acpi=on and apic.

Thanks  a lot!
Nicolas Brouard
Le Vendredi 23 Mai 2003 11:02, [e-mail] a écrit :
> Brouard Nicolas writes:
>  > 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?
>
> The "$machine with broken BIOS detected, refusing to enable the local APIC"
> message only affects the local APIC and the few services using it like the
> NMI watchdog and some performance measurement/profiling tools.
> It has no impact on whether APM works or not.
>
> Possibly Mandrake 9.1 detects ACPI (not APIC) which would disable APM.
> Try booting with "noacpi" or "acpi=off" or whatever the option is called.

-- 
Nicolas Brouard