BIOS Setting: PlugAndPlayOS = Enabled 1

[wmg]

Hello,

I'm about to make some hardware changes to my PC and reload Mandrake (8.2 this time).

I predominantly use Windows XP ('cos there's no Linux PPPoA and driver support for my PCI ADSL modem ..... yet) but I think I have the above setting disabled currently.

Can anyone tell me what the impact on Linux will be if this is changed to enabled?

Regards
wmg

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

That would not really be a good idea. What that setting means is 'do you want the bios to pre-configure PCI devices or will the operating system do this instead?' . It you say 'yes' to PnP OS then the bios itself will not attempt to configure any PCI devices and linux will probably have problems with those devices. As far as I am aware, there are no adverse affects to Windows in setting 'no' to PnP OS in the bios - it can work either way whereas other operating systems can't because they don't have the code in the operating system itself.

Hope this helps

 

[wmg]

Great - thanks ifincham - I guess I'll be leaving that setting alone then!

BTW, I used that 'free' command regarding the swap file size that you and bubak suggested - it came back saying that 0 bytes of the 128Mb swap partition were being used and that I had around 400Mb of physical RAM available. I think I'll be ok leaving that one as as it is too!

regards
wmg