According to Jon Dowd: While burning my CPU.
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> Earlier I wrote:
> ... I've installed RedHat 5.1 this evening and startx ends with an
> error message...
>
> Responses included - 1) dont have enough memory. (I'm running 48MB)
> 2) have bad memory. (I guess it's ok,
> Win95 works)
> 3) No swap space activated. (I think
> it's active [free.out...])
> total used free shared buffers
> cached
> Mem: 30844 7992 22852 7144 580
> 4372
> -/+ buffers/cache: 3040 27804
> Swap: 49356 0 49356
>
> I run a K6/2 and I found this re: Signal 11 and the K6 at:
> http://www.multimania.com/poulot/k6bug.html
> "... The AMD-K6 processor has a bug that prevents reliable operation
> when more than 32 MB of RAM is used. ..."
> So I pulled SIMMs and brought the system down to 32MB, booted up, ran
> startx and got the same errno 111 - Signal 11 error message.
Then i would suggest you try 16Mb, i would even go as far as saying,
widows will use bad memory, linux wont.
Another thing is you seem to have a very large kernel, you said 32Mb, well
your kernel takes up a lot more than 1 meg.
You definaly have memory problems.
I dont know if its of any help but take a look at;
http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11
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> Thanks for your help
>
> Jon Dowd - Ashland, Oregon - USA
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Regards Richard.
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