Thus spake Brian Nelson: > "Stan Brown" <stanb@awod.com> writes: > > > I have alwys in the past been using recyled older computers, so this never > > caem up. > > > > Now I find myself in the fortunate poisiton of have several modern machines > > wuth AGP 4X, AYA-100 266 MHZ bus, etc. > > > > Here is the question, given a woidy install, what do I need to to to make > > certain each of these new enhancments actullu gets used, isntead of falling > > back to compability mode? > > > > X setup? boot time kernel options? compile tiem kernel options? > > > > And how can I determien for ceratin whether they are or are not getting > > used? > > man ispell Agreed, but perhaps more helpfully - read the kernel docs for support for your hardware - most of it should work just fine on a 2.4 series kernel - try to stay with the newer ones, as the early ones had some problems. You can see if UDMA, etc is being used by either: a)looking at the BIOS messages b)looking at dmesg, which will tell you the mode of the drives c)playing with hdparm (c) shouldn't be necessary - most modern disks and hardware use UDMA and readahead and whatnot by default, and I haven't had any problems with the kernel agreeing amicably. There are kernel config options for enabling AGP and so forth. Good luck and have fun, Steve -- Illiterate? Write today, for free help!
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