[linux-audio-user] Intel DG965WH motherboard

[John Anderson]

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 13:11 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 18:36 +0200, John Anderson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 06:49 -0700, Stephen Hassard wrote:
> > > John Anderson wrote:
> > > > My PC died very suddenly on Sunday night (moment of silence).
> > > > One can't buy Sempron processors here anymore, so yesterday I bought an
> > > > Intel DG965WH motherboard with a Core Duo E6600 and 2G of RAM. I managed
> > > ...
> > > > - And of course since the machine is still using a 32 bit installation,
> > > > so there's only 1 processor :-|
> > > 
> > > Don't think that just because you're running in 32bits mode that your 
> > > second processor isn't available. Boot an SMP kernel and your other 
> > > processor should come up fine.
> > 
> > I enabled all the SMP flags I could find in the kernel config. I've
> > looked at the output from dmesg I don't know how many times and it was
> > only reporting 1 processor. But when I go and look now it's actually
> > reporting 2. Doh! and Yay! at the same time.
> 
> Maybe you had ACPI disabled?  On many newer machines ACPI is required
> for SMP to work.

That sounds likely. I remember turning on all the ACPI flags I could
find, quite late in the config-compile-install-reboot dance.

bye
John