Re: [TCLUG:21491] Coppermine and Linux

[Charles Fulton <cf352197@oak.cats.ohiou.edu>]

Didn't mean to offend any of those die hard debianites... I meant 2.1r4  I'll crawl back into my little hole now.  ;)

I run a 2.4 on another laptop (sound support man) and it works just fine.  I had the source laying around hence me building a 2.4; this being after I read
about the patch for cache detection.  I figured the patch had made it into the kernel tree by now but I didn't really investigate.  assume==bad;

I also wanted a 2.0 kernel (slink) just to see what it had to say.  I at least got an error on that one.

I wouldn't really put anything past Intel and if it were 1Ghz I'd bet on it being a funky cache.  But this is 800Mhz so it should be stable enough.  It seems
to work just fine in BSD so it'll end up a FreeBSD machine which is fine but I'd still like to know why linux choked on it.

Anyone ever hear of a BIOS causing a problem like this?  I don't see how off hand but I guess it's possible.

Thanks,
Charlie