Re: nforce2 lockups

[Patrick Dreker]

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Am Samstag, 23. August 2003 17:50 schrieb Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@xxxxxxxxx> 
zum Thema Re: nforce2 lockups:
> On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:48:06 +0200, Patrick Dreker <patrick@xxxxxxxxx> 
> > >Am Samstag, 23. August 2003 14:20 schrieb Mikael Pettersson 
> >zum Thema Re: nforce2 lockups:
> >> On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 10:41:46 +0900, kenton.groombridge@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >> "noapic" (note: no "l") might very well fix your board, but that's
> >see above. noapic had no effect on the freezes. On boot it still said
> > "found and enabling local APIC"
> Of course it did. "noapic" and BIOS APIC mode relate to the I/O-APIC,
> not the local APIC.
Well it's my first board which has an APIC, so I'm still learning how that all 
belongs together...

> My guess is that your BIOS or graphics card can't handle the local
> APIC, presumably due to a crap SMM# handler or you using APM's
> CPU_IDLE or DISPLAY_BLANK options.
Someone else already hinted, that it might be the BIOS/SMM problem. APM is 
completely disabled
> Kernel 2.6.0-test4 supports "nolapic", so that's an option too.
> I'll send that patch to Marcelo for 2.4.23-pre so it should be
> in 2.4 eventually.
I'll try that, and Asus have updated their BIOS for the Board, so I'll give 
that a shot, too.
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