Abstract
Some considerations on newer hardware like legacy-free systems, nVidia 3D graphics accelerator cards, and other things that don't fit in the preceding sections...
Legacy-Free Systems. Hardware manufacturers have recently introduced what they call “legacy-free systems”, mainly on laptops[25]. This basically means that the BIOS has been considerably reduced to allow you only to choose which media to boot from. In some cases, GNU/Linux will be able to configure everything properly. In other cases, you will have to apply the kernel's ACPI patch.
nVidia 3D Graphics Cards. Computers with nVidia graphics cards need a patched kernel to be able to use OpenGL hardware 3D acceleration on OpenGL-compatible applications. The kernel should have been installed by DrakX, however if this is not your case, please install the NVIDIA-kernel and NVIDIA-GLX packages and run Mandrake Control Center and re-configure X from there.
nVidia RPMs are experimental and, as such, are not supported by MandrakeSoft. However, they do work very well on most systems.
My Computer is “slow”. If you notice your computer is really slow, or slower than with previous Mandrake Linux versions, you might overcome this “problem” disabling ACPI support. To do so, add the following to your /etc/lilo.conf file:
append=" acpi=off" |
If the file already has an append= line, only add acpi=off at its end. Running lilo -v as root and rebooting your computer will make the changes effective.