Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Dual athlon XP 1800 problems | From | Shaya Potter <> | Date | 03 Jan 2002 14:07:50 -0500 |
| |
On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 12:07, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Andreas Bombe wrote: > > > The identification string is written by the BIOS. Yours didn't know > > about XPs so it misidentified them as MPs. Upgrade your BIOS if this > > bugs you. > > > > If ID string contradicts what you think you bought, don't trust the ID > > string. > > x86info, and 2.5.2-dj11 both have code to correctly determine XP / MP.
Just getting linux up and running on this machine, so with the original debian kernel (2.2.20 UP) and x86info from its unstable, these retail XPs were identified as MPs
trillian:/home/spotter# uname -a Linux trillian 2.2.20 #1 Sun Nov 4 15:44:23 EST 2001 i686 unknown trillian:/home/spotter# x86info x86info v1.7. Dave Jones 2001 Feedback to <davej@suse.de>.
Found 1 CPU, but found 2 CPUs in MPTable. /dev/cpu/0/cpuid: No such device Family: 6 Model: 6 Stepping: 2 [Athlon MP] Processor name string: AMD Athlon(tm) MP Processor 1800+
PowerNOW! Technology information Available features: Temperature sensing diode present.
prehaps 2.4.17 (compiling now) will make a difference, or does one need your kernel + x86info to do it correctly?
thanks,
shaya
-- spotter@{cs.columbia.edu,yucs.org} http://yucs.org/~spotter/
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |