Re: APM working on SMP machines?

[Marc-Christian Petersen]

On Saturday 09 August 2003 11:05, Michal Semler wrote:

Hi Michal,

> I would like to know when will work APM on SMP machines?
> I use Dell  workstation 400 with 2 P2 CPUs.
> When I remove one CPU APM works, when I have 2 in case APM
> doesn't work
> I can't use ACPI, because this machine doesn't support it.
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
> apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe.
> Thanks for fixing and reply - it's very uncomfortable
> switch off computer manually :(

root@codeman:[/] # modinfo -p apm
......
smp int, description "Set this to enable APM use on an SMP platform. Use with 
caution on older systems"
......

Did you try this? (2.4.21 and above)

ciao, Marc

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