"Latitude with broken BIOS" ?
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...)
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Nicolas Brouard
Quoted 7 lines · Brouard Nicolas
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/apmstart 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 "$machine with broken BIOS detected, refusing to enable the local APIC" message only affects the local APIC and the few services using it like the NMI watchdog and some performance measurement/profiling tools. It has no impact on whether APM works or not.
Possibly Mandrake 9.1 detects ACPI (not APIC) which would disable APM. Try booting with "noacpi" or "acpi=off" or whatever the option is called.
Yes acpi=off solved the APM problem.
I am able to suspend my laptop again!
In Mandrake Control Center, in the Lilo parameter options the acpi=off or acpi=on is prepared! There is a second option which can be set: "noapic". There is no other option.
But by default, it was acpi=on and apic.
Thanks a lot!
Nicolas Brouard
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Quoted 8 lines · Brouard Nicolas
I am not well aware of what APIC is but I was running Mandrake 8.2 on my Linux partition of a Dell Pentium III latitude 550 MHz and I don't remember such a dmesg message. But when I upgraded to Mandrake 9.1 here it is. The problem I have is that I can't have any suspend mode any more neither battery indicators and
/etc/rc.d/init.d/apmstart claims that apm is no more in the kernel. Is it linked to that APIC problem and this BIOS problem, why did it work earlier? Do you think that if I found a new bios from Dell it will help?The "$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.
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Quoted 11 lines · Brouard Nicolas
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/apmstart 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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