dapper drake and a core-duo cpu ?

Sarunas Burdulis sarunas at math.dartmouth.edu
Fri May 19 12:26:40 UTC 2006


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Johannes Behr wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just installed dapper drake on a asus notebook with a core-duo-CPU.
> First I thought everything works but as soon as I started to compile my
> own stuff I recognized that the system only sees one core (e.g. top)
> 
> Do I need some extra kernel? What kind of kernel? I thought maybe
> just a standard 2.6-smp but I can only find 2.4-smp kernels.
> Why is there no 2.6-smp kernel in the standard repositories?
> 
> So my question is: Does dapper drake (with kernel 2.6) support core-duo
> CPUs?
> 
> How can I activate the second core?
> 
> best regards,
>   Johannes
> 
Drake installer doesn't seem to care about the number of CPUs and uses
- -i386 uni-processor kernel. It looks like (at least some of) -i686
dapper kernels have SMP support enabled. Try one of those. it did the
trick for on Centrino Duo.

Sarunas

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