unstable system question
jim ruxton
cinetron at passport.ca
Sat Sep 22 15:20:47 UTC 2007
> > So far my system has stabilized since I added pci=noapci to my
> > grub.conf . Is there something I should do to narrow down the problem
> > within acpi or should I just live with noacpi on my laptop?
>
> You could try "acpi_skip_timer_override" or its opposite
> "acpi_use_timer_override". Not sure which is the best bet. Does this
> beastie use an nVidia chipset?
>
> There's several other options available, but not having issues myself,
> I can't say which may work. Here's a snapshot of the docs:
>
> acpi= [HW,ACPI,X86-64,i386]
> Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
> Format: { force | off | ht | strict | noirq }
> force -- enable ACPI if default was off
> off -- disable ACPI if default was on
> noirq -- do not use ACPI for IRQ routing
> ht -- run only enough ACPI to enable Hyper Threading
> strict -- Be less tolerant of platforms that are
> not strictly ACPI specification compliant.
>
> One other thing I might mention is to see if there's an updated BIOS
> for your machine and if so, install it.
Thanks Rick I'll look more into the acpi docs . Yes it has an Nvidia
chip.
jim
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