> > 1. Sporadic SIGSEGV with gcc. In my case, I needed to type "make" four > times to get gimp 1.1.28 compiled. None of the "internal compiler > error: caught signal 11" errors was reproducible, which tells me there > is a hardware problem (overheating?).
Could be heat or flakey RAM. > 2. The NVRAM settings tend to get lost from time to time. A good way > of making the NVRAM forget its contents is to do a "shutdown -r now", > and then press the reset button while the screen is showing the > white/blue screen with the pre-boot messages (i.e. after linux shuts > down but before the machine resets). Someelse reported this as well and I've filed a bug on it at API. http://emperor.alpha-processor.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20 So far we've been unable to reproduce it, but we'll run through it again. > 3. 6 of 8 switches on the switch bank of the mainboard are not > documented. What is the function of these? 2 are firmware setup, 2 are cache size (which is fixed). I don't think the other 4 are used. > 3a. Can I configure the board so that the reset switch halts the CPU > (giving me the SRM prompt) rather than reset the machine? This used to > be possible, on the Multia/UDB at least. There's no halt connector on the motherboard, so no. > 4. How can I get the sound chip to work? Apparently this is an > AC97-compatible AD1881(A), and is emulated as a SoundBlaster (or > ALS007 ?) by the southbridge. Both should be supported by OSS! With > sb, I get "DMA timeout, IRQ/DMA conflict?", with ac97_codec, I get > nothing (this probably is not a complete sound card driver, but what's > missing?). Get 2.2.16 (or later), get the patch from the API website: http://www.alpha-processor.com/products/downloads/customer_support/UP1100/ trident-2.2.16.patch.bz2 build the kernel as either Nautilus or Generic, say yes to trident sound card support. --rdp -- Rich Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.alphalinux.org
