[mythtv-users] Occasional hard freezes

[Ryan Steffes]

On 10/29/05, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>
> Ryan Steffes wrote:
>
> > Changing to acpi=off did not fix the problem. I'm a little concerned
> > with whether it's really off though, it seems to turn on local apic
> > before reading the kernel options:
> >
> > Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: Found and enabled local APIC!
> > Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: Initializing CPU#0
> > Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: Kernel command line: auto
> > BOOT_IMAGE=MythTV ro root=341 acpi=off noapic nolapic resume=/dev/hdb3
> > splash=silent
> > Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: bootsplash: silent mode.
> >
> > Later, it does say:
> >
> > Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at
> > 0xfbe50, last bus=2
> > Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
> > Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
> > Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211
> > Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
> > Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c)
> > Adam Belay
> > Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
> > Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PnPBIOS: Disabled
> > Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> > Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
> > Oct 29 08:56:54 mythtv kernel: PCI: Using IRQ router default
> > [10de/01e0] at 0000:00:00.0
> >
> > but it doesn't say anything about local apic again. How can I check
> > that it's really disabled?
>
> If you have a relatively nice BIOS, it will enable you to disable ACPI,
> LAPIC, and possibly APIC. Try that in addition to the kernel params.
>
> Mike
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According to the BIOS, local apic is allegedly disabled.
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