Re: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?
So have I with LM 7.2 and 8.0 and although there is still a big question with the VIA chipset everything works as it should. I have no problems at all. On Friday 09 November 2001 08:54 pm, you wrote: > El Vie 09 Nov 2001 04:55, escribiste: > > just wondering how well mandrake/linux works on athlon-based systems? > > are there any issues which i need to be careful about? > > I dont think so, I have an Athlon 700 in a Gigabyte motherboard and it > works OK. I have read about some bug affecting VIA KT133 chipset, but till > now I didn't notice any problem. > > By the way, I installed Mandrake 8.0 > > Rafael Lepra Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?
> just wondering how well mandrake/linux works on athlon-based systems? are > there any issues which i need to be careful about? > > thanks. > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > I sincerely hope so! I have mandrake 8.0 running on 6 1.2ghz systems and it's a peach compaired to my windowz laptop :) magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?
> just wondering how well mandrake/linux works on athlon-based systems? are > there any issues which i need to be careful about? > > thanks. > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > I sincerely hope so! I have mandrake 8.0 running on 6 1.2ghz systems and it's a peach compaired to my windowz laptop :) magnet Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?
On Saturday 10 November 2001 12:57 am, Epicurus wrote: > On Friday 09 November 2001 04:55, you wrote: > > just wondering how well mandrake/linux works on athlon-based > > systems? are there any issues which i need to be careful about? > > > > thanks. > > I've got Mandrake 8.0 runing on an Athlon-750 and can point you to > one problem which you might want to watch out for--appearantly > there was some sort of problem between the kernel and the BIOS > which caused it to fail booting; it'd lock up right after the "INIT > 2.78" message. Easy enough to fix; just make sure you install the > older version of the kernel as well and if the new kernel turns out > to be a problem, go for the old one. :) There's no kernel problem. What you experienced is indicative of marginal or misconfigured hardware or bios version (Phoenix?). Most likely problem is marginal cpu/cache/ram subsytem, ie, your motherboard, or next, a marginal or misconfigured bios. The kernel's already booted when you see that INIT mesg. /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS $ rpm -qpil SysVinit-2.78-11mdk.i586.rpm Name: SysVinit Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 2.78 Vendor: MandrakeSoft Release : 11mdk Build Date: Wed 22 Aug 2001 12:27:35 PM EDT Install date: (not installed) Build Host: no.mandrakesoft.com Group : System/Configuration/Boot and Init Source RPM: SysVinit-2.78-11mdk.src.rpm Size: 160842 License: GPL Packager: Chmouel Boudjnah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Summary : Programs which control basic system processes. Description : The SysVinit package contains a group of processes that control the very basic functions of your system. SysVinit includes the init program, the first program started by the Linux kernel when the system boots. Init then controls the startup, running and shutdown of all other programs. -- Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA chmod +x /bin/Laden.al-Qaeda.Taliban Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?
While you may have experienced this, it's NOT symptomatic of Athlon systems, or even 750's. It's more likely you were running into another problem preventing the first stage kernel load... I.E. it wasn't finding the partition table, etc. At "Init" you didn't even have a running kernel. -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Epicurus |Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 12:58 AM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems? | | |On Friday 09 November 2001 04:55, you wrote: |> just wondering how well mandrake/linux works on athlon-based |systems? |> are there any issues which i need to be careful about? |> |> thanks. | |I've got Mandrake 8.0 runing on an Athlon-750 and can point you to one |problem which you might want to watch out for--appearantly |there was some |sort of problem between the kernel and the BIOS which caused |it to fail |booting; it'd lock up right after the "INIT 2.78" message. |Easy enough to |fix; just make sure you install the older version of the |kernel as well and |if the new kernel turns out to be a problem, go for the old one. :) | |N. | |Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" |Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit |Content-Description: | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?
Athlon works just great with Mandrake as does K6. You do not have to do anything. Any applications you compile on your Athlon will by default get compiled as i686 architecture and will include extensions to the instruction set like 3dNow This is why for example the developers of mplayer encourage users to compile for their individual machines rather than use a generic i386 or i586 RPM (Note: The mplayer developers depracate the gcc2.96 compiler that ships with Mandrake because it leaves out the 3DNow optimisations. The alternative gcc3.01 will compile for 3DNow) If you look at /usr/src/linux/.config you can see which processor features were used to compile your current kernel. You will notice there are specific switches to compile in K6 or K7(Athlon) optimised code. The default i586 optimised kernel works just fine with Athlon and you are unlikely to notice any benefit if you recompile for Athlon. However graphics intensive applications such as kde or mplayer should show a benefit because of the i686 extended instruction set and 3DNow optimisations. On Friday 09 November 2001 9:55 am, tek1 wrote: > just wondering how well mandrake/linux works on athlon-based systems? are > there any issues which i need to be careful about? > > thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?
I have a 1.4gig athlon, and is working fine on that.. and by tuesday, I will be upgrading to a AthlonXP 1800+, I am not expecting problems with that either. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Carroll Grigsby Sent: Saturday, 10 November 2001 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems? Neville: Hmmm... I've also got an athlon 800 running LM 8.0 with USB mouse and keyboard, and it all works just fine (except for all of the operator errors, of course). ABIT KT-7, 256 mb RAM, Matrox G200, Maxtor 15 and 20 gb drives, CD and CD-RW, internal Zoom ISA modem. Go figure. Regards, Carroll Neville Cobb wrote: > > I've got an athlon 800 and found problems with 8.0 and USB - would not > load on install. However with 8.1 all works fine. > > Nwv > > = > > tek1 wrote: > > > just wondering how well mandrake/linux works on athlon-based systems? > > are there any issues which i need to be careful about? > > > > thanks. > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?
On Friday 09 November 2001 04:55, you wrote: > just wondering how well mandrake/linux works on athlon-based systems? are > there any issues which i need to be careful about? > > thanks. I've got Mandrake 8.0 runing on an Athlon-750 and can point you to one problem which you might want to watch out for--appearantly there was some sort of problem between the kernel and the BIOS which caused it to fail booting; it'd lock up right after the "INIT 2.78" message. Easy enough to fix; just make sure you install the older version of the kernel as well and if the new kernel turns out to be a problem, go for the old one. :) N. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?
El Vie 09 Nov 2001 04:55, escribiste: > just wondering how well mandrake/linux works on athlon-based systems? are > there any issues which i need to be careful about? I dont think so, I have an Athlon 700 in a Gigabyte motherboard and it works OK. I have read about some bug affecting VIA KT133 chipset, but till now I didn't notice any problem. By the way, I installed Mandrake 8.0 Rafael Lepra Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?
Neville: Hmmm... I've also got an athlon 800 running LM 8.0 with USB mouse and keyboard, and it all works just fine (except for all of the operator errors, of course). ABIT KT-7, 256 mb RAM, Matrox G200, Maxtor 15 and 20 gb drives, CD and CD-RW, internal Zoom ISA modem. Go figure. Regards, Carroll Neville Cobb wrote: > > I've got an athlon 800 and found problems with 8.0 and USB - would not > load on install. However with 8.1 all works fine. > > Nwv > > = > > tek1 wrote: > > > just wondering how well mandrake/linux works on athlon-based systems? > > are there any issues which i need to be careful about? > > > > thanks. > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?
I've got an athlon 800 and found problems with 8.0 and USB - would not load on install. However with 8.1 all works fine. Nwv = tek1 wrote: > just wondering how well mandrake/linux works on athlon-based systems? > are there any issues which i need to be careful about? > > thanks. > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
