I disagree, first, this is a major problem as it completely freezes the box and it has to be turned off manually.
second, when you release a distribution it needs to be able to run on as many boxes as possible without major crashes, if you can turn off an item and it creates more stable boxes, then you are less likely to lose people, especially newbies thirdly, this is a feature that more experienced users will take advantage of and they are more than qualified to rebuild their kernel. Mandrake is geared towards user friendlyness and having your system crash so easily is not user friendly. Because the Fn key is right next to the Ctrl key, there has been quite a few times that I am trying to change desktops and end up freezing the system. Finally, this feature has recently been turned on in the kernel, prior kernels, esp in the 2.4.16 and prior did not have this turned on. It is not an improvement when the stock kernel creates more problems as it progresses forward. Let the maintainers of APIC resolve some of these issues and make this feature more stable across many different types of boxes before it becomes part of the default kernel. --- "J.A. Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 20020130 SI Reasoning wrote: > >APIC is still enabled in 2.4.17-12. > >--- SI Reasoning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I am still having problems with my Dell Inspiron > >> 8000 > >> that are APIC related. Please disable it in the > >> production kernel. I am currently running > >> 2.4.17-11mdk. > >> > > So what ? > > APIC is good (TM) and works in many boxes, as it is > supposed to do. > If your mobo-bios is broken, care yourself to > install with > append="noapic", or spam Dell to supply a fix. > But do not try to cut a feature in a distro that is > usefull for > everybody else. > > -- > J.A. Magallon # Let the > source be with you... > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 > Linux werewolf 2.4.18-pre7-slb #2 SMP Tue Jan 29 > 01:49:07 CET 2002 i686 > ===== SI Reasoning [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There never was a good war or a bad peace." Benjamin Franklin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com
