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- From: wyvern@gnu.ai.mit.edu (The Wyvern)
- Subject: Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.162838.11174@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- Organization: Free Software Foundation
- References: <1992Dec29.013408.3676@nwnexus.WA.COM> <350102Tu30st01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:28:38 GMT
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- In article <350102Tu30st01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> jdg00@amail.amdahl.com (Josh Grosse) writes:
- >I found that I couldn't do a "three finger salute" on my notebook pc when Linux
- >was running until I turned off the shadow ram bios in my bios set up. Shadow
- >ram consumes 128K, and is a copy of the rom bios (slow) running in ram (fast).
- >
- >As far as I can tell, Linux only uses bios during boot, so I turn off shadow
- >ram (and get an extra 128K) when I run Linux.
- >
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- I'm running a 486 using Phoenix BIOS, and have also noticed that reboot and
- ctrl-alt-delete wouldn't work unless I turned off the shadow ram.
- I don't want to disable it if it'll slow down the system significantly,
- but I was also under the impression Linux didn't use the BIOS much.
- Can someone who knows confirm this?
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- >The same version of SLS loaded onto a friend's machine does not have this
- >problem. So, this may be indicative of particular clone configurations.
- >
- >My notebook (TI 3000) uses a blend of Phoenix and Quadtel bioses.
- >--
- >-----------------------------------------------------------------
- >Josh Grosse jdg00@amail.amdahl.com
- >Amdahl Corp. 313-358-4440
- >Southfield, Michigan
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