From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272300AbTHIJWF (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Aug 2003 05:22:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272305AbTHIJWF (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Aug 2003 05:22:05 -0400 Received: from lindsey.linux-systeme.com ([80.190.48.67]:51461 "EHLO mx00.linux-systeme.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272300AbTHIJWC (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Aug 2003 05:22:02 -0400 From: Marc-Christian Petersen Organization: Working Overloaded Linux Kernel To: cijoml@volny.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: APM working on SMP machines? Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 11:21:31 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200308091105.27619.cijoml@volny.cz> In-Reply-To: <200308091105.27619.cijoml@volny.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308091120.42524.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 09 August 2003 11:05, Michal Semler wrote: Hi Michal, > I would like to know when will work APM on SMP machines? > I use Dell workstation 400 with 2 P2 CPUs. > When I remove one CPU APM works, when I have 2 in case APM > doesn't work > I can't use ACPI, because this machine doesn't support it. > apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16) > apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe. > Thanks for fixing and reply - it's very uncomfortable > switch off computer manually :( root@codeman:[/] # modinfo -p apm ...... smp int, description "Set this to enable APM use on an SMP platform. Use with caution on older systems" ...... Did you try this? (2.4.21 and above) ciao, Marc