Thomas Backlund wrote:
Citerar Eric Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Some people/troll on the Mandrakeclub forum claim the mandrake-secure
kernel does not support HIGHMEM like the kernel-enterprise. Is it
possible to enable it in the kernel-secure, or to create a
kernel-secure-enterprise for that purpose ?
No it does not use highmem....
AFAIK highmem is not concidered a safe option when you try
to secure a kernel, but you could always recomile it yourself...
Moreover, more and more desktop machines have more and more memory since
it has become very cheap. We could see it with a lot of people having
the frame buffer problem with 1GB RAM at install. Is there any reason to
Actually the framebuffer problem was not because of highmem,
even if it triggered it...
The real problem was graphic cards with >64MB of RAM and
how they reports their memory banks back to the kernel...
I actually got a mail from one that had only 256MB system ram,
and a graphic card with 128MB, and he had this probleb too...
Anyway... The framebuffer problem is solved now ...
not enable Highmem support for every kernel now or is it a problem for
people with less than 1GB ?
There is a speed penalty when enabling highmem support,
so it should not be default...
And if you want highmem support, use the enterprise kernel...
Thanks a lot for this answer.
I hope it will calm down some trollers on the club forum.
Cheers
Eric
