Ken Jackson wrote:
> I burned the Belenix 0.6.1 iso to CD and booted it.  It booted and
> I logged in and ran "startgui xfce" and then "startgui kde", but
> both failed with this message repeated twice:
>
>   ld.so.1: perl: fatal: /lib/libm.so.2: hardware capability \
>   unsupported: 0x1000 [ SSE2 ]
>   Killed
>
> Also, several utilities I ran including 'ping' and 'awk' returned
> the same error (but substituting the executable name for 'perl').
>
> This is on a Dell Dimension L933r, 933MHz P3 with 512MB RAM,
> Intel 82810E onboard graphics.
>
> Any suggestions?
>   

Hello, I didn't try Belenix for half a year and am not 100% up-to-date 
when it comes to x86/x64.
But I interpret your description, as if your version of libm depends on 
SSE2 and doesn't find native hardware support for it in your cpu (I 
actually thought the later P6's / Coppermines had SSE2 already, don't 
they? Or did it only come with Tualatin or afterwards PIV, while PIII 
only has SSE1, versus MMX on P-Pro and PII?).

Anyways, this seems to be a known issue, I recommend you to browse the 
mail list's archives or to google for it.

You also find it being mentioned on Belenix's site: 
http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/?q=news

"A solution to the Math library SSE2 issue that haunted earlier BeleniX 
releases has been put in place. The FreeBSD math library has been 
re-included since it does not require SSE2. However it is used only on 
machines where the SSE2 capability is absent."

Hope this helps until someone from the Belenix team  comes along (and 
gives you better details).


--martin

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