From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
To: ieure@qwest.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-laptops@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inspiron 8100 freezing
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:21:31 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200202141021.LAA08331@harpo.it.uu.se> (raw)
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:34:18 -0800, Ian Eure wrote:
>Hi there. My shiny new Dell Inspiron 8100 arrived in the mail today...
>...
>However, the system locks hard when I boot it up. The point where it dies
>varies - it got as far as starting cron one time.
>
>Compiled a vanilla 2.4.17 & got the exact same thing. I'm not doing anything
>exotic.
>
>ACPI is disabled, APM is configured thusly:
I bet you have CONFIG_SMP or CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC enabled. In that
case the hangs on the Inspiron are expected: it's BIOS is buggy.
A quick fix is to disable those two options. The proper fix is to
complain to Dell and tell them to fix their damn BIOS, then get a
2.4.18-pre or -rc kernel, and apply these patches
patch-boot-time-ioremap
patch-early-dmi-scan
patch-dmi-apic-fixups
from <http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/kernel-patches/2.4/>.
/Mikael
next reply other threads:[~2002-02-14 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-14 10:21 Mikael Pettersson [this message]
2002-02-14 10:48 ` Thomas Langås
2002-02-14 14:16 ` Tom Sightler
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2002-02-14 14:30 Mikael Pettersson
2002-02-14 1:34 Ian Eure
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