Hey.
Some of these questions are FAQs. Unfortunately, I don't think they appear in
the FAQ.
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> I've just setup a Linux box with an ABIT BP6 M/B and two 400 Meg
> Celerons. I'm having problems booting that I haven't tied down yet
> (don't the boot messages whiz by fast!), and I've also noticed the
> following puzzling message.
>
> mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent fixed MTRR settings.
> mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs.
This is fine. Don't worry about it whatsoever. It is additional information
provided by your kernel. Basically, your kernel found a problem and FIXED IT
so everything is happy.
> When It boots OK , both CPUs are reported at 400 bogomips and a
> combined 800 bogomips. A full compile seems to be fast, but is there any
> software that takes advantage of both CPUs that I can impress and
> convince myself that it's all worthwhile?
Try compiling XFree86 4.0. <g> Seriously, though, any program that is highly
threaded, you'll see a big gain. Particularly things like ray tracing.
I'm surprised that you didn't have a problem with your kernel only finding 64
megs of RAM. Use the free command to make sure that it is finding all the RAM
you think you have. If it isn't, add append = "mem=128M" to your
lilo.conf (or however much memory you have). My BP6 motherboard needs this
line.
--
Christopher Thompson http://hypocrite.org/
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