Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Serious problem with new kernel?

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> > CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC appears in the files:
> > scripts/config/config_linux.up  (and .smp)
> > 
> > Should someone upload a "fix"?
> 
> Hmmm...I guess somehow VMWARE needs to support the IO-APIC not
> devil linux I guess.

>From all the traffic I found while searching the net, I think this is 
a problem with 2.4.21 and some IDE chipsets.  Other people with this
problem were not running VMware, but real PC's.

And my VMware-4 (save version) worked fine on DL w/2.4.20.

IMO this should be fixed in DL, at least until there is a kernel patch
for it, otherwise some people will run into problems.

 - BS