[CentOS] CentOS on Dell Inspiron 640m laptop

[Patrick]

On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 08:40 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Quoting Patrick <centos-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl>:
> 
> > The workaround on my laptop is to boot with "noapic irqpoll". Resume
> > works if I specify that. Last time I tried it I got a message
> > in /var/log/messages that this is going to kill performance and the
> > little battery disappeared from my Gnome taskbar. Not a perfect solution
> > but maybe it works for you.
> 
> Well, my laptop is too old for apic, so there's no apic to disable.   
> It has apm though.  I'll try irqpoll option.  I've already tried  
> noapm, which didn't help, but who knows maybe in combination with  
> irqpoll.  What does irqpoll do exactly?

The kernel docs say this: The "irqpoll" boot parameter reduces driver
initialization failures

Regards,
Patrick