Detecting the need for additional kernel options?

[Michel Salim]

2007/2/24, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info>:
> Michel Salim schrieb:
> > Is Anaconda currently checking the machine configuration against a
> > compatibility database? On some AMD64 laptops (including my HP L2000),
> > the machine would lock up randomly (without any log message) if booted
> > without "noapic" (I added "nosmp" for good measure).
> >
> > Perhaps a user-maintainable database; we can consider tying it in with
> > Smolt so that only users who own a particular model can submit
> > required kernel options for it (to verify ownership, give the user a
> > token that they must pass to Smolt, e.g. smoltSendProfile
> > --key=AF32EBD4008)
>
> Why not fix it in the kernel once and for all? That has benefits for
> everyone, as no user has to care about options ever again and the
> problems get fixed in all distributions over time...
>
That'd be ideal, unfortunately, in this case I just realize my
original quickfix is probably not right -- I still get intermittent
crashes (with the screen going a bit blurry if the monitor is on at
that moment).

Cheers,

-- 
Michel Salim
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