hi, yesterday i decided to go ahead and compile the kernel with sound support and get rid of a bunch of scsi, cd-rom and ethernet drivers. anyway, after the first boot, i checked /var/adm/messages and found some unexpected diagnostics regarding the PCI bus. basically, before i built the kernel, the following two lines used to be logged to the messages file:
PCI BIOS Rev 2.10 Probing PCI hardware now, in addition to that i get: cache L2 not supported CPU-PCI posted write not supported CPU-Memory posted write not supported PCI-Memory posted write not supported PCI-Burst not supported the system seems to perform at roughly the same level as before. i am kind of baffled by these messages. anyway, here is some more info i have: Intel 486 DX4/75 UM 8810 APIO (with the stupid buggy cmd640) PCI Motherboard (v.3.2) 256K L2 cache 16 Mb RAM Phoenix BIOS (v.4.04) i configured the kernel using make menuconfig and selected both options regarding PCI bios. any ideas?? -- Sinan ps: i would appreciate it if you could cc your response to me ... i might have to unsubscribe from the list due to heavy traffic ... i receive my mail at a really congested machine. ******************************************************************* A. Sinan Unur WWWWWW |--O+O mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] C ^ http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/asu1/ \ ~/ *******************************************************************