On Monday 19 Sep 2005 15:32, Christopher Taylor wrote: > > > > What does noapic and nolapic do? I tried googling and it appears to be > > a > > flag for the kernel, but I couldn't tell what it meant. Thanks.
It's concerning interrupt handling, I believe. Try googling for "apic lapic". noapic is, of course, "no apic". Since Christopher is talking of an older computer, there are other options that he may need to try, such as acpi=off (or =on) as well. It's a bit trial and error with these things, but once you know what your motherboard is happy with, you just set that in lilo and it's there forever. Of course, I'm assuming that he has tried things like "startx". If it's as simple as that it's just a matter of editing a startup file to init5 instead of init3. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Mandriva hints & tips: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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