Re: Sarge install -- still no ACPI

[Mike Oliver <mike_lists@verizon.net>]

Jurij Smakov wrote:
> On Fri, 14 May 2004, Mike Oliver wrote:
> > So would someone fill me in on what all these things do?  I
> > know in general terms what ACPI does; for example when I use
> > the boot options above, if I pull out the AC cable, the screen
> > dims, whereas it didn't when I had "acpi=off".  But I really
> > don't know what the implications of "noapic nolapic" are.
>
> There seem to be a nice page detailing Linux installation and setup on
> precisely the kind of machine you have [0]. It gives some recipes on
> ACPI/PCMCIA fixes, so it might be useful. In particular there is a
> suggestion of booting with 'pci=noacpi nolapic' which might not knock out
> the ACPI completely.
>
> [0] http://twiki.complexfission.com/twiki/bin/view/Computer/CompaqPresario2199US

Thanks much; an impressive looking page.  Unfortunately I
still don't know what these options do.  Right now it seems to
be working reasonably well with "noapic nolapic" and I think
my processor was getting kind of hot when I had "acpi=off", so
I'd probably rather leave it this way unless there's some significant
downside to "noapic nolapic".  Since I don't know what apic and lapic
are, it's hard for me to guess if there is or isn't.