Hi, today I booted Knoppix LiveCD 4.0 (based on Debian, with kernel 2.6.11) on an Sony PC with an ATI grachics chip to see how the X-server identified and configured itself for the ATI (with no really clear answer, but it did not seem to use an "ati" driver), but then I thought I would check if the kernel was loaded with SMP since the CPU was a Pentium D 820. KDE's Kinfo clearly showed there being 2 CPUs - CPU 0 and CPU 1, but there was nothing actually showing a kernel with SMP support was running.
What I'm wondering is: 1) Are the new (dual core) Pentium D and AMD x2 CPUs handled differently in terms of SMP than the tranditional 2 CPU (SMP) setups we've had upto now? 2) I know the kernels anyway need to be compiled with SMP support, so maybe the Knoppix LiveCD is (does anybody know for sure?), but I know that my 2 CPU (Pentium 3) system with Debian 3.1 shows that it is a kernel with SMP support and also needs an IRQ balancer for example, which I did not see on this Pentium D system. 3) Is it that the new dual core CPUs being on one chip/socket are handled different and do not need an IRQ balancer? Thanks for any and all explanations! Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]