Hi all,
A bit offtopic for this list, but this is the best place I could think of to
discuss this.
A friend of mine had trouble with 2 different via c7 epia motherboards (mini
itx boards with single chip chipset with unichrome integrated graphics) machines.
They would freeze (hard) pretty much at random while working in programs like
openoffice or firefox. He end up writing a script which would repeatedly start
firefox and thunderbird, wait for the cpu load to become zero, kill them again,
etc. This killed the system reproducable, usually within the hour, always
within 5 hours.
He gave one to me with the request to see if I could fix it. After many days of
experimenting (latest bios update, try various settings, verify cooling, etc),
I've found out that (on a fully up2date Fedora 7 system) replacing the i686
kernel with the i586 one and the glibc with the i386 (and openssl, but that
wasn't used afaik) will make the system stable.
So appearantly the via c7 isn't all that i686 compatible as via claims, I
suspect that there may be a problem with certain i686 specific synchronisation
instructions, but that is just a hunge.
This leads to the conclusion, that anacondo should perhaps be modified to mark
these systems as i586 and thus choose a i586 kernel and a i386 glibc when
installing on them. But before filing a but I first wanted to discuss this here.
Regards,
Hans
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