Opened 16 years ago

Last modified 14 years ago

#258 closed task

It's necessary add new switch for NVidia: APICasPIC — at Version 2

Reported by: eco Owned by: pasha
Priority: major Milestone: Release version 3.18
Component: ACPI PSD Version: 3.09
Keywords: Cc:

Description (last modified by eco)

It's necessary add new switch to acpi.cfg: APICasPIC

(Pasha was going to do this at 2008/04/10)

there was a ticket:

Nvidia has two modes of APIC mode.

Now we recommend to user add /!NOD The purpose of this switch is different but by "accident" it enables needed mode and allows use this PC (and other NVidias).

Why to spend efforts? 1) It's difficult to document why/when to use /!NOD switch. 2) /!NOD - it's a dirty method.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Steven Levine, 16 years ago

Milestone: Release version 3.10Release version 3.11

comment:2 by eco, 16 years ago

Description: modified (diff)

Alan Beagley:

the following is what works for me with my Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe motherboards (nVidia chipset), AMD dual-core CPU and LSILogic U320 SCSI card:

PSD=ACPI.PSD /APIC /SMP /!NOD

The ACPI documentation is confusing, especially (IMO) wrt the /!NOD switch: at one point I was told to remove that switch, which I had found I had always had to use, and with that particular version of ACPI removing the switch solved the problem. When the next version came out, I found by trial and error that I had to restore the switch. A later version of the docs. announced that the switch was no longer needed, but I found that I still needed it.

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