From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Andrej Ricnik <a.ricnik@niwa.co.nz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux-Kernels 2.4.xx, apm & P4 issues
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 09:02:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030218080215.GA137@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200302171527.19066.a.ricnik@niwa.cri.nz>
Hi!
> and my apologies for the general direction.
>
> I have googled on this topic, asked on discussion boards
> and couldn't find any suitable hints.
>
> The problem that I encounter is happening on a mobile P4.
> When apm is active (I've compiled it as a module in
> both a 2.4.18 and 2.4.20 kernel) my system clock errs
> by as much as 90 seconds in an hour. Also, I seem to
> experience keyboard related problems (Ctrl, Alt, Shift get
> *sticky* -excuse my wording, I can't think of a better
> description- that is, if I press them while typing normally,
> even though they are released physically their functionality
> carries on. Also the cursor keys sometimes issue numbers rather
> than cursor-movement) when apm is running.
> The machine in question is a IBM Thinkpad R32, mobile P4 1.8GHz,
> 512MB RAM.
Seems that crappy apm bios takes long to execute, and interrupts are
probably off during that. Try enabling interrupts during apm; try
acpi.
--
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[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]
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2003-02-17 2:27 Andrej Ricnik
2003-02-18 8:02 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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