Re: Linux releases - was phase stepping

["Ian Wright" <Ian-at-iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

Hi,

I got RH7.2 up and running (on an ATI Rage II + DVD video card), but, on the
P266 machine I put it on, it was *extremely* slow compared to other
releases. I can only assume that is something to do with the new ext3 file
system.

I've just loaded up Mandrake 8.0 on the same machine - much faster and
slicker but I haven't tried to patch rtl or rtai in yet - anyone tried
setting up emc on Mandrake 8.0 yet??

Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield  UK
www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Sheahan" <jrsheahan-at-optushome.com.au>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <emc-at-nist.gov>
Sent: 12 September 2001 00:50
Subject: Re: phase stepping


>
> 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.
> >
>
>
>