Re: No luck getting 2.6.x kernel to work with ACPI on compaq laptop

[Danny ter Haar]

Quoting Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@xxxxxxxxxxxx):
> > After this the machine is dead in the water.
> > No magic sysrq or anything.
> 
> It sounds as if some driver is using IRQ10, and that another device
> is also on that IRQ. This will create an interrupt storm the moment
> you switch the triggering from edge to level....
> So: Which devices use IRQ10 when the computer works?

Len Brown from Intel sent me :

"try booting with "nolapic" (or disable LOCAL_APIC in the kernel build)"

That indeed solved my problem, i can now use poweroff etc.
I will add a bugreport to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1682
l8er this week ;-)

Danny

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