Thanks Mikkel On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 10:31 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > 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 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. > Fair enough. But it leaves the question, "what does the warning want me to do and how do I do it?" -- Regards Bill
