William Case wrote: > Hi; > > What is this warning I get at boot just before Red Hat nash starting: > "POWERNOW-K8; MP systems not supported by PSB BIOS Stuctures" ?? > > I believe it has something to do with acpi which is mainly for laptop > "sleeping" and I have a desktop. > > Tried " kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.1-41.fc7 ro root=LABEL=/ acpi=off rhgb > quiet" in grub, but still get the warning. In BIOS setup it is enabled > but greyed out i.e. can't be disabled. > > I have just installed a new ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard with an AMD Athlon > 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor. > > Any suggestions on how to turn off either the warning or acpi in Fedora > 7? I am supposing it has some use in my WindowsXP. > I would not turn off ACPI, except as a last resort. It is for a lot more then for laptop "sleeping". You may want to read up on what ACPI does. It is definitly useful on a desktop. From trivial things like handling what the system does when you push the power switch, (sleep, hibernate, do a safe shutdown, etc...) to showing cpu temps, to managing the cpu temps, to setting up interrupts for system hardware. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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