[Novalug] dmesg showing vesafb / drive errors at bottom

gregory pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Sun Jan 14 11:37:15 EST 2007


Meant APIC

On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 11:09:02AM -0500, RJ Bergeron wrote:
> On 1/14/07, gregory pryzby <greg@pryzby.org> wrote:
> >My compaq server was locking up. I turned off apci and it hasn't
> >locked since.
> >
> >On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 10:59:37PM -0500, Jay Hart wrote:
> >> > Try adding "noapic" to the kernel line.
> ACPI and APIC are unfortunately similar names for different things...
> 
> APIC is an advanced interrupt controller, ACPI is the new power
> managment interface.
> 
> I like having ACPI enabled on my desktops so that pushing the power
> button kicks off a proper shutdown... Sometimes you can use it to
> dynamically throttle a CPU on a desktop box, too.
> 
> ACPI is disabled by passing acpi=off as a kernel argument.

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