From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] meaning of "*nomp=" has reversed
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:06:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a9b1dedbdcdd7441e2b01fba476b89c7@quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070810224226.78CE45B71F@mail.cse.psu.edu>
On Fri Aug 10 18:44:19 EDT 2007, davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu wrote:
> I have an odd machine which doesn't work right in the brave new APIC
> world (for example, VESA mode can draw windows and menus but not paint
> the cursor...?).
you wouldn't happen to have usb legacy support enabled in bios, would you?
(unfortunately apic is no longer the brave new world. in fact, it's getting
a bit harder to get newer machines to work based on mp tables alone.
msi is getting to be assumed.)
> Looking around it seems like *nomce is like *nomp, but *noetherprobe,
> *nousbprobe, *nobios, *pcibios, *nopcirouting, *norealmode, etc., all are
> the "old way" (presence is all that matters, not the right hand side).
>
> Isn't there an argument for all of these working the same way?
there sure is.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-10 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-10 22:42 Dave Eckhardt
2007-08-10 23:06 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2007-08-11 21:17 ` [9fans] Weird symptoms unless APIC support is disabled Dave Eckhardt
2007-08-11 21:19 ` [9fans] meaning of "*nomp=" has reversed Dave Eckhardt
2007-08-11 21:24 ` ron minnich
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