Re: Thunderbird problems

2000-09-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, listmail wrote: > Thanks for your help so far. I ran the utility, and it did show a number > of errors on its sixth run through. However changing the ram seemed to fix > the problem at first, but things soon were back to behaving badly. Bad > motherboard? Any other suggestion

Re: Thunderbird problems

2000-09-13 Thread listmail
Thanks for your help so far. I ran the utility, and it did show a number of errors on its sixth run through. However changing the ram seemed to fix the problem at first, but things soon were back to behaving badly. Bad motherboard? Any other suggestions? thanks sub On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Gordo

Re: Thunderbird problems

2000-09-11 Thread listmail
> > In what way did you modify the kernel? I'm just curious. I assume you > mean that you were able to boot from the installation media, and that it > failed to boot post-install. I used a boot disk (toms) to get into the system, used the chroot command to make my mounted drive into the roo

Re: Thunderbird problems

2000-09-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: > Tom's hardware did a good job explaining the differeces in the archectures. > There are significant differences. To back up Gordon's comment I think it is > interesting that AMD is getting the highspeeds and hav not even begun > shipping the .18 micron ve

Re: Thunderbird problems

2000-09-11 Thread listmail
> Slight oops here. I mixed up Asus K7V and A7V. The A7V is a sockel > motherboard, so it definitely has no problems with running Thunderbirds with > the on die cache running at full clock speed. This problem only occurs in some > slot Athlon motherboards (but probably not with the K7V). >

Re: Thunderbird problems

2000-09-11 Thread Bret Hughes
Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Statux wrote: > > > Well AMD's, etc will only ever be clones.. people need to face the music > > You might think so, but AMD is doing their thing fairly well. Athlons are > cheaper than PIII's, and usually perform better. Notice that Athlons are > av

Re: Thunderbird problems

2000-09-11 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello all, > > > I have installed redhat 6.2 on an Asus a7v system, but have had > > > nothing but troubles with it. > > > There seem to be some general problems with Athlon slot motherboards running > Thunderbirds. On the other hand, I think this Asus board should run stab

Re: Thunderbird problems

2000-09-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Statux wrote: > Well AMD's, etc will only ever be clones.. people need to face the music You might think so, but AMD is doing their thing fairly well. Athlons are cheaper than PIII's, and usually perform better. Notice that Athlons are available at higher clock speeds, and

Re: Thunderbird problems

2000-09-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, listmail wrote: > Several versions ago? Or are you referring to the kernel. Yes, several kernel versions ago. I believe 2.2.12 fixed the issue to which I was referring (reference: http://www.linux.org.uk/VERSION/relnotes.2212.html) > Redhat 6.2 would > not boot on my thund

Re: Thunderbird problems

2000-09-10 Thread listmail
> > Linux did have a problem booting on some Athlon systems several versions > ago. > Several versions ago? Or are you referring to the kernel. Redhat 6.2 would not boot on my thunderbird processor, and neither would the boot disk it made for me. It hung trying to shut of the p3 serial number

Re: Thunderbird problems

2000-09-10 Thread Statux
Well AMD's, etc will only ever be clones.. people need to face the music :) On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Statux wrote: > > > I see.. but if it was listed as the CPU in the subject.. what's up with > > the rest of the original post? ;) I had to ask, that's al

Re: Thunderbird problems

2000-09-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Statux wrote: > I see.. but if it was listed as the CPU in the subject.. what's up with > the rest of the original post? ;) I had to ask, that's all. He was having trouble with an Athlon based system, and thought it might be a compatibility issue (or at least that's what I g

Re: Thunderbird problems

2000-09-10 Thread Statux
I see.. but if it was listed as the CPU in the subject.. what's up with the rest of the original post? ;) I had to ask, that's all. On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Statux wrote: > > > So where does "Thunderbird" come into all of this? > > thunderbird was the

Re: Thunderbird problems

2000-09-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Statux wrote: > So where does "Thunderbird" come into all of this? thunderbird was the code name of the second generation of AMD's Athlon chips before they were released. Now, they're branded as Athlon. MSG ___ Redhat-list ma

Re: Thunderbird problems

2000-09-10 Thread Statux
So where does "Thunderbird" come into all of this? On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, listmail wrote: > I have installed redhat 6.2 on an Asus a7v system, but have had > nothing but troubles with it. >After changing the kernel to 2.2.16-3 I can now boot, but compiling > causes the system crash, somtim

Re: Thunderbird problems

2000-09-10 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Gordon and listmail, > > I have installed redhat 6.2 on an Asus a7v system, but have had > > nothing but troubles with it. > > Your description sounds like bad RAM. The latest systems from both AMD > and Intel have been very, very sensitive about the quality of RAM you

Re: Thunderbird problems

2000-09-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, listmail wrote: > I have installed redhat 6.2 on an Asus a7v system, but have had > nothing but troubles with it. Your description sounds like bad RAM. The latest systems from both AMD and Intel have been very, very sensitive about the quality of RAM you use. If you bo

Re: Thunderbird problems

2000-09-10 Thread lee johnson
listmail wrote: > I have installed redhat 6.2 on an Asus a7v system, but have had > nothing but troubles with it. >After changing the kernel to 2.2.16-3 I can now boot, but compiling > causes the system crash, somtimes due to segmentation faults other times > do to an inability to write t

Thunderbird problems

2000-09-10 Thread listmail
I have installed redhat 6.2 on an Asus a7v system, but have had nothing but troubles with it. After changing the kernel to 2.2.16-3 I can now boot, but compiling causes the system crash, somtimes due to segmentation faults other times do to an inability to write to the swip file. Gnome and