Re: [Sheflug] PnP OS?

[Pieter Meiring <nospam [at] libertysurf.co.uk>]

On Thursday 05 April 2001 02:19, you wrote:
> What does this BIOS setting do?
>
> If anyone has had IRQ related problems with recent VIA chipsets I would be
> interested in comparing notes.
>

This bios setting, when set to "Yes", bypasses all BIOS detection of 
preipherals (built in and not) on startup, assuming that the OS will do it 
instead. Set it to "No" for Linux. Linux PNP detection PCI and ISA is neither 
perfect nor complete (!) - some things are detected, others are looked for in 
the BIOS detection tables.

Pieter
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