Re: APIC on Dell Laptops - WAS: Re: [RFC] Fix NMI watchdogdocumentation

[Disconnect (lkml@sigkill.net)]

On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 14:38, mikpe@xxxxxxxxx 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)

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