check-bios-nx(1)

✨ check-bios-nx(1) ✨ — NAME

check-bios-nx 💖 determine if BIOS has blocked CPU's NX capabilities

🎀 SYNOPSIS

check-bios-nx [-h|--help] [--verbose]

💅 OPTIONS

• -h, --help — okay so this one is simple bestie, it shows a help message and then exits 🫶
• --verbose — the full tea ☕ it explains in detail what has been detected

🦋 DESCRIPTION

okay so this program lowkey investigates whether the running x86-based CPU has NX capabilities 🔥 and it does this regardless of whether the BIOS has disabled them. main character energy, no cap ✨

here's the vibe check: if the CPU is NX-capable but the nx bit is missing from flags, it exits 1 (aka "BIOS settings need changing" 😭). otherwise it exits 0 (aka "nothing wrong with BIOS" 🌈). periodt 💜

🌸 MORE INFORMATION

the deets live at http://launchpad.net/cpu-checker 🍓

👑 AUTHOR

this manpage was written by Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com> for Ubuntu systems 🧚 (but anyone can use it, it's giving open-source generosity 🫶). 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. ngl that's a whole legal serving 💀

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3 📜

bestie, that's the whole page! cpu-checker ✨ 9 March 2010 ✨ check-bios-nx(1) 💖 slay the BIOS settings responsibly 🎀🦋