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Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 13:41:38 +0000
From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Alessandro Suardi <ALESSANDRO.SUARDI@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: "Latitude with broken BIOS" ?
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On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 05:28:49AM -0800, Alessandro Suardi wrote:

 > >  >  "Dell Latitude with broken BIOS detected. Refusing to enable the local APIC."
 > > Lots of Dell laptops (like other vendors) crash instantly when trying to
 > > enable the APIC.
 > Well my Dells power off on rebooting from 2.5... bug 119 or 134 in
 >  http://bugme.osdl.org, no need to resort to messing with the APIC ;(

That one IMO looks like an ACPI problem (Note ACPI != APIC)

		Dave

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