Re: phase stepping

[John Sheahan <jrsheahan-at-optushome.com.au>]

Hi Paul

I run maybe 10 linux boxes at home and work. sure rh7.2 is beta, 
but my exxperience is that on current boxes it works really 
well, easily best redhat yet.
 
On older boxes its more iffy. rh7.2 uses xf86-4.1, which is
documented as incompatible with older S3. (I think?)
But works a lot better on matrox and nvidia for me.

My problem on the p-pro was kernel however, seems 2.4.6 
did not like  the hardware.

rh6.2 makes more sense on anything more than a couple of years 
old still in my opinion, but I have no real experience with 
realtime linux variants.

regards, john

On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 06:59:19PM -0400, Paul wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi John
> 
> I'm currently playing around with RH7.2 - Note, this is a beta release, and
> boy, is there some bugs in there....
> 
> Struggling to get XFree86-4 up and running, I found virtually all my graphics
> cards would not work. S3, Mach64, and a Cirrus chipset all failed to work. The
> ATI Rage card in an AGP slot runs a treat. Another card I tried was an SiS
> 6356, a total lockup, with only the reset button working.
> 
> If anyone else is thinking of migrating to RH7.2, my advise would be, don't,
> unless you want to be on the bleeding edge of EMC development.
> 
> 
> Regards, Paul.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, John Sheahan wrote:
> 
> > I think its just an unusual box. In past ages it was my fileserver then
> > firewall, and its run various linuxes for many years. But it 
> > flatly refused a RH7.2 install I tried on it last week.  
> > ppro 150,
> > bash> /sbin/lspci
> > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma]
> > (rev 02)
> > 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton
> > II] (rev 01)
> > 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE
> > [Natoma/Triton II]
> > 00:08.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c764/765 [Trio32/64/64V+]
> > (rev 44)
> > 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co.,
> > Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
> > bash> 
> > 
> > the 8029 is running ne2k-pci drivers, and I was doing a dhcp/ftp install 
> > from my main box here. (cdrom died). Thats how rh62 installed.
>