NAME
check-bios-nx - determine if this system’s CPU has NX capabilities
SYNOPSIS
check-bios-nx [-h|--help] [--verbose]
OPTIONS
-h|--help - display a help message and exit
--verbose - explain in detail what has been detected
DESCRIPTION
This program attempts to determine if the running x86-based CPU has NX
capabilities (regardless of it being disabled by the BIOS).
If the CPU is NX-capable but the nx bit is missing from flags, exit 1
(i.e. "BIOS settings need changing"), otherwise exit 0 (i.e. "nothing
wrong with BIOS")
MORE INFORMATION
http://launchpad.net/cpu-checker
AUTHOR
This manpage was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
for Ubuntu systems (but may be used by others). Permission is granted
to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the
GNU General Public License, Version 3 published by the Free Software
Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.