XFree86 & ACPI don't like each other?

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 27 April 2004 10:38 am, Sergey Solyanik wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> >>>Did you remove 'device apic' as well?
> >>
> >>FWIW, X under 5.2.1-RELEASE would freeze on me.  Creating a non-SMP
> >> kernel solved the problem for me.  I'm still using ACPI but only just
> >> started using sleep/resume.  I did not remove apic.
> >
> > So just removing SMP, but not removing apic?  What if you boot the SMP
> > kernel with 'kern.smp.disabled=1' set from the loader?
>
> Is removing apic necessary when removing SMP?
>
> I have a lot of boxes without SMP and with apic, notebooks and desktops,
> and everything is working ok, using APIC interrupts routing.

No, it is not necessary.  However, knowing whether or not apic alone causes 
the problem allows us to narrow it down into either the apic code or the SMP 
code.

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