noapic??

[octoberweb]

I read a post saying to try the cheat noapic if you are having problems with network and sound. Well, lucky, this time it worked, but most of the time it doesn't. It doesn't seem to work when I put in the cheat knoppix26 toram noapic. Can anyone explain the sugnifigance of the noapic? And why the toram messes with the nopaic cheat? Also, when I get knoppix to work perfectly, what can I do to save the configuration? Can I use the SAVE KNOPPIX CONFIGURATION in the Knoppix menu? I thought I saved it the last time it worked, but it didn't boot correctly.
Here is my lspci when it is working well. I will put in my lspci when it is doing quite the opposite. Thanks in advance!!

October

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce CPU bridge (rev b2)
0000:00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 220/420 Memory Controller (rev b2)
0000:00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce 220/420 Memory Controller (rev b2)
0000:00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 01aa (rev b2)
0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce ISA Bridge (rev c3)
0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce PCI System Management (rev c1)
0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce USB Controller (rev c3)
0000:00:03.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce USB Controller (rev c3)
0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce Ethernet Controller (rev c2)
0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce Audio (rev c2)
0000:00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce PCI-to-PCI bridge (rev c2)
0000:00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce IDE (rev c3)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce AGP to PCI Bridge (rev b2)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 If [Radeon 9000] (rev 01)
0000:01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Radeon 9000] (Secondary) (rev 01)
0000:05:07.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k HSFi Modem (rev 01)

[OP4Latino]

Yeah, I want to know more about this noapic because that's the only cheat that would let knoppix boot on my PC.

why ubuntu 5.04 hoary boots without noapic on my PC?

I found this, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APIC it's too late to read it. so maybe someone could do a summary of all that

I'll come back later to read what you guys have to say.

P.D: it's already april, when 3.8 would be read to the public?

[tdjokic]

I have 3.8 for week now, my suplier of Linux CD had it very soon... My lilo.conf was modified at 24.03.2005 - this is a date I installed 3.8!

[OP4Latino]

I have 3.8 for week now, my suplier of Linux CD had it very soon... My lilo.conf was modified at 24.03.2005 - this is a date I installed 3.8!

Yeah, where did you get it?

[tdjokic]

I bought it at my local Linux CD store, but later they say to me thet you can find it on Google: "Knoppix 3.8 ISO" but I don't know how.......

[whoeverheis]

3.8 iso has been available by bit torrent for about a month now at various download sites. Here's one with a couple of options. http://stacktrace.org/

[OP4Latino]

Ok, cool. knoppix is on bit torrent.

now lets talk about the real topic. What's up with noapic?

[whoeverheis]

Patience is cool! Now here is a link to explain what apic is and does. http://osdev.berlios.de/pic.html. Perhaps this will assist you in understanding noapic. The apic/noapic problem has been around linux for eons. Since I don't write code I can't explain the linux/intel interface. More than likely other answers will be "yeah, it works for me" or as in my case "Everything works as is"

[whoeverheis]

Ah, I see you've experienced patience. I have returned ahead of you. I'm sure I will be banned from this forum for all eternity for the next link that will actually explain why devices can come and go with apic/noapic. http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysperf/apic.mspx

Goodbye All!

[tdjokic]

I'm sure I will be banned from this forum for all eternity for the next link that will actually explain

Why? Facts are facts, no matter which source they come from!! Thank you for the link.