[mythtv-users] nforce and SPDIF

[Ian]

Torsten Schenkel wrote:

>Am Sa, den 17.04.2004 schrieb Mitko Haralanov um 22:12:
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>>On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 17:45:16 +0200
>>Torsten Schenkel <mythtv at isl.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
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>>>Did you disable APIC and Local-APIC in the kernel. The NForce2 doesn't
>>>like it and will crash with high i/o or irq activity.
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>>This might be a stupid question but does setting "acpi=off" on the
>>kernel boot line be enough or do I have to recompile the kernel?
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>Best bet is a new kernel and you want to switch off the 
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>APIC - Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
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>not the 
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>ACPI- Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
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>The kernel options are noapic and nolapic IIRC,
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>Torsten
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Has anyone tried the acpi4linux project?  http://acpi.sourceforge.net/

I've read of some people using this successfully.  Still waiting for my 
hardware to arrive, so I can't add anything more yet.  I plan on using 
the Chaintech 7NIF2 board, and want to use the power management stuff.

Ian.