Bug#273474: APM broken in image-2.6.8-1 version 2.6.8-3, worked in 2.6.8-1

[maks attems <debian@sternwelten.at>]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Marcus C. Gottwald wrote:
..
> There's a difference in APIC treatment. Here is the part when
> using 2.6.8-1 (APM working fine):
> 
>   Sep 26 13:06:51 lilith kernel: Dell Latitude with broken BIOS detected. Refusing to enable the local APIC.
>   Sep 26 13:06:51 lilith kernel: Built 1 zonelists
>   Sep 26 13:06:51 lilith kernel: Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=Debian_default ro root=305 acpi=off
>   Sep 26 13:06:51 lilith kernel: Initializing CPU#0
> 
> Here is the part when using 2.6.8-3:
> 
>   Sep 26 13:01:45 lilith kernel: Built 1 zonelists
>   Sep 26 13:01:45 lilith kernel: Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Debian_default ro root=305 acpi=off
>   Sep 26 13:01:45 lilith kernel: Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
>   Sep 26 13:01:45 lilith kernel: Found and enabled local APIC!
>   Sep 26 13:01:45 lilith kernel: Initializing CPU#0

i'm a bit confused, but the 2 dmesg that you appended are both
regarding kernel 2.6.8-1.
the difference seems your boot cmdline. in the second case noacpi is not
parsed and therefor acpi enabled. 
AFAIK lilo prepends "auto" before the whole cmdline what happened to the
second?

so your problem doesn't seem 2.6.8-1 specific.
didn't see an apm change when going through the changelog concerning
2.6.8-3 versus 2.6.8-3-1.

what bootloader are using?

a++ maks