CentOS - Dec 2005 - how to correctly turn off apic at boot - also compaq V2000 solved.

Jerry Geis wrote:
>/ I have tried in the grub.conf file
/>/ 
/>/ noapic
/>/ 
/>/ and
/>/ 
/>/ apic=off
/>/ 
/>/ I am still getting the same error message about ACPI
/>/ in the dmesg output.
/>/ 
/>/ example:
/>/ ACPI: PCI interupt .... IRQ 16
/>/ eth0: RealTek RTL8139 ... IRQ16
/>/ eth0: identified 8139 chip type
/>/ 
/>/ so ACPI is grabbing IRQ 16 and not letting eth0 have it. (I Think).
/>/ 
/>/ How do I correctly disable it on my compaq v2000 laptop.
/>/ I think it is not allowing my usb and realtek network to function.
/>/ 
/>/ Jerry
/>/ 
/
Isn't it acpi=off? Aren't apic and acpi different things?

------------------------------

That is fantastic... THanks. I did not realize two differnt things.

MY laptop compaq v2000 is now working with USB and network both.

THank you.

Jerry

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL:
<http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051219/fdf4c5ee/attachment-0001.html>