[Klug-general] Hardware problem with Toshiba laptop

[George Prowse]

Mike Evans wrote:
> nicolas diogo wrote:
>> Mike,
>>
>> did you upgrade the BIOS at any stage?
>> that may account for different behaviours for the hardware.
>>
>> Nicolas
>>
> Nope  - never touched it guv'ner - and Ubuntu 7.10 is still running in 
> the other partition without the noapic setting so methinks it has to be 
> a software change in the kernel.  Like Aitch said: "We have found kernel 
> changes for newer hardware causing all sorts of 'anomalies' with older 
> hardware"  Always a downside to modernity I guess!
> 
> Mike
Personally I think you broke Fedora and Ubuntu - Red Hat and Mark 
Shuttleworth aren't going to be happy...! Steve Ballmer has just... well 
the less said about that the better