Re: Sarge install -- still no ACPI

[Mike Oliver <mike_lists@verizon.net>]

Herbert Xu wrote:

> Your case is a known issue:
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1269
>
> So please try to upgrade your BIOS or disable local APIC.

I've disabled local APIC and no disasters seem to have
ensued, but I still don't know what it is.  A groups.google.com
search was not extremely enlightening.

Could it have something to do with the following strange
behavior?  I set up my sarge installation with a USB
mouse plugged in, and the mouse works, but the touchpad
doesn't.  If I pull the mouse out and reboot, X doesn't
start! but I can start it manually with startx.  Then
the fonts are all messed up! (but the touchpad works).
Someone once said that if X were a car, you could steer
by tuning the radio, but this is ridiculous.]