On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 03:33:04AM +0930, Tim wrote: > I've just noticed something with the last kernel update that I don't see > with prior kernels: During the very early stages of writing text to the > screen at boot time, there's a message like this: > > ACPI: Invalid PBLK length [5] > > I don't know if this is worth worrying about. Anybody care to comment? Probably a BIOS bug. > On a side note. I'm told this P4 has hyperthreading, and I see the ht > flag above. Should I be using the SMP kernel? If the motherboard also supports ht, sure. > I was somewhat surprised to see my BIOS offering clock speeds about two > and three times faster than the label on CPU (as above, 1.6 GHz). The > BIOS automatically deals with clock speed, and I never expected > overclocking options THAT much faster. I've left it at the same speed > as printed on the CPU. wise move. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
