On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 15:01, Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Tuesday 26 Feb 2002 13:43, Pixel wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Fox) writes: > > > > [...] > > > > > My machine has a nasty tendancy to hard crash when I play BZFLAG for > > > extended periods without the "mem=nopentium" option. > > > > > > I also read somewhere that this options if highly recommended (for > > > stability) for AMD based mahines. > > > > > > Why doesn't the DrakX install catch this and do this automatically? > > > > because I really think it should be fixed in the kernel? > > > > if mem=nopentium is *needed*, why not have it by default! > > What? The provided Mandrake kernel is for all types of processors, not > just AMD. You wouldn't want "mem=nopentium" is you have a pentium. So > command line option is the only option as far as I can see. > -- > Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. AMD Athlon XP 1600+, 512MB RAM. > Registered Linux User 219434. Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin) > Kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk-win4lin, XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 21mdk. > KDE: 2.2.2. Qt: 2.3.2. Up 2 days 8 minutes. >
The installer could check for the kind of CPU and adjust in consequence...
