Re: Laptop recommendation

[Philip Bellenoit <philipbellenoit@comcast.net>]

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 09:54 +0200, Miroslav Maiksnar wrote:

> As for SMP kernel freezing, try adding "noapic" to kernel parameters. It is 
> quite common issue, that motherboards for dual-core CPUs don't have APIC.
> 
> Mixi
> 
I had to google APIC because I didn't know what is was.  Is it possible
that my laptop doesn't have APIC because it's dual core and not dual
processor?  One site I googled suggested to look at the output
of /proc/interrupts.  Here's my output:

phil@falcon:~$ cat /proc/interrupts
           CPU0
  0:    3372720    IO-APIC-edge  timer
  1:      11233    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
  8:          0    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
  9:       5574   IO-APIC-level  acpi
 11:          3   IO-APIC-level  ohci1394
 12:     924022    IO-APIC-edge  i8042
 14:     120000    IO-APIC-edge  ide0
 50:     537756   IO-APIC-level  ndiswrapper
209:          4   IO-APIC-level  ehci_hcd:usb1
217:     175146   IO-APIC-level  ohci_hcd:usb2
225:      46850   IO-APIC-level  libata
233:        149   IO-APIC-level  HDA Intel
NMI:       1356
LOC:    3280198
ERR:          0
MIS:          0

Does this mean that my board has APIC?  Should I still try noapic?