Matthias Andree writes:
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
>
> > p.s. The update for 2.4.19-pre3 and the full kit for 2.4.18 are
> > at <http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/patches/2.4/> as usual.
>
> Does that also fix the "crashes on switch back from X11 to text (or
> frame buffer) console" that's been around since 2.4.9 or 2.4.10, but not
> before, that bites so many users of SuSE Linux 7.3?
> de.comp.os.unix.linux.* has at least one report every week. SuSE shipped
> kernel 2.4.10 with 7.3.
The dmi-apic-fixups patch ONLY deals with disabling use of the local
APIC (or parts of it in some cases, e.g. AL440LX) when a known broken
BIOS or machine is detected by the DMI scan.
Without an adequate analysis of the problem you describe above I can't
even guess what the fix might be.
/Mikael
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