Re: FIC PA-2007 & Linux
Roy P. Turner (ecstasy@dopamine.com)
Mon, 09 Feb 1998 00:37:20 -0600
In message <Pine.LNX.3.95.980208212543.836A-100000@gateway.saturn.tlug.org>, Mi
ke Frisch writes:
>
> (Please excuse me if this seems off-topic, but it raises perhaps an
> important kernel issue.)
>
> I have an FIC PA-2007 Socket 7 motherboard with a Pentium 133 CPU
> installed... the board has worked flawlessly under Windows 95 and Windows
> NT 4.0 (including image processing with 128MB RAM installed and over 100MB
> of swap on top of that). I just recently installed Linux onto this
> machine (2.1.85 with all packages listed in Documentation/Changes). I am
> running GNU C 2.7.2.3 on kernel 2.1.85 and I cannot compile any large
> applications (ie. compiler, kernel, etc) without SIG11s occurring
> randomly. Before anybody jumps to conclusions, I consider myself a
> competent system builder and have tried replacing the board, the memory
> (from two different suppliers and many different configurations) and
> NOTHING has helped.
>
Well I'm not going to be able to explain your problem, but Linux
runs flawlessly on my FIC PA-2007 with a K6 233. I know that's not
the desired answer, but I just wanted to say that I don't believe
this board has any problems with Linux. It's a wonderful board
under both Linux and 95.
Roy
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