Dan Gordon wrote:
On February 25, 2005 10:25 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote:
I'm going to guess that you have an Intel hyperthread processor, This is what i have and so some operating systems like linux see this as a dual processor machine. So that is what the smp kernel is for, the one labeled just linux would be a single processor. I am using the smp kernel and it works very well, but you should experiment and see what you like. As for linux-nonfb hopefully some one else can explain that to us as i have never tried that myself.When I boot Mandrake the boot manager gives me a choice between: "linux-smp", "linux", and "linux-nonfb". What is the difference between these?
Regards,
Dan Gordon
I don't really know, but I would guess that linux-nonfb is 'non-frame-buffer,' which in my understanding is a Kernel interface to the graphics system. Not using the frame-buffer, therefore, would give apps direct access to the graphics system, which is needed if something goes wrong with the frame-buffer method. Personally, I delete everything but the 'Linux' entry to clean things up and hope for the best ;-).
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