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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 05:11:38 -0800 (PST)
From: Jorge Carminati <jcarminati@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel freezing....
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Fran?ois Wrote:

> okay, I kinda see the problem now. Would you consider using a
> 2.4.16 kernel, optimized for i386, and compiled with gcc 2.95.3 ?
> If that solves the problem, you might want
> to compile your kernel for i586 ; if that works
> again, you might want to try optimizing for K6.
> Don't go higher than that though ; optimizing for i686 or
> Athlon will break.
> And please don't use another gcc ; 2.95.3 is the most reliable
> right now, eventhough "some" 2.96 seem to work fine, but I suspect
> they might not, in your case.


Ok Fran?ois, I?ll try it tonight, first attempt compiled for i386.
Tomorrow I?ll post the results.


> 
> the key is :
> 
> (duron or athlon) and via and (PSU sloppiness or "not so high grade"
> RAM),
> 
> which is the case in too many notebooks.
> 

Ok, you spend U$ 1800 (that?s the price here) for a "not so high grade"
Compaq memory... sounds lamentable

>PS : please, please keep me informed, I think I'm uncovering an
unknown

Sure I?ll do.

>bug at the hardware level, but I'm not sure *yet*. FYI it's not a
>blocking problem, at least when running Linux, it only keeps you
>from using the Athlon/Duron at full speed (i.e. full kernel/compiler
>optimizations).


Anyway, I installed a fresh Red Hat 7.2 copy, which doesn?t comes
optimized for AMD, but the freeze is there...

Regards,
Jorge Carminati.

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