686 kernel wastes CPU power

[Frank McCormick]

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On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:48:19 -0500
Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/13/06, Matt Patterson <matt at v8zman.com> wrote:
> >
> 
> this may have nothing to do with your issue because I use a desktop
> system, but I noticed that when I switched to the 686 kernel I lost
> some power-related behavior, such as the system will not power down
> completely (it goes throught the shutdown process and the hard drive
> spins down, but the power never goes off).


   Sound like what I wrote here about 2 weeks ago - my Dapper system acts the
same way but is fine with the 386 kernel. The 686 kernel also won't boot unless
I pass it the "noapic" keyword. Weird.



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Cheers

Frank

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