About the time the tech press was saying that the new Pentium 4 would have trouble running under linux (early December), this was happening: http://www.linuxcare.com/labs/certs/hp/hpvl800-linman72.epl A certification of Mandrake for the HP Vectra VL800. Now it is not unusual for Linux-Mandrake 7.2 to certify on a new machine out of the box with no problems, but here is the detail on the machine: http://www.hp.com/desktops/vectra/vl800/overview.html Do my eyes deceive me or do you see a Pentium 4 as the processor as well? So where are all the industry pundits who claimed that linux would have trouble with the Pentium 4? I hope I don't find any of them for a while. </Rant> In reality, there are some programs that need Processor ID. You will find kernel-2.2.17-21mdk.2.i586.rpm in /Mandrake-devel/unsupported on your favorite mirror. It offers a valid processor ID to those programs so the P4 will run them properly. Also, Deno has written a nice article about the P4 on www.mandrakeforum.com. Civileme
