Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 20:33:12 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Win98 Toshiba drivers on 20GB HDD setup et al
>Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:09:25 >From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >>Neil was just mentioning that he had a problem setting up Mandrake on a >>70CT that he didn't have with his 50CT. Could there be a set of problems >>the 70CT has with the old Win98 drivers that the 50CTs don't? Why else >>would Toshiba pull those old drivers from their support page and offer new >>ones? >> > >I believe, but cannot prove, that the problem with the mandrake >installation is down to the fact that the 70 processor has mmx and the 50 >doesn't - and I think that the extra code required to handle that is >sufficient to trip an out-of-memory error. > >I suppose the mmx instructions could be significant to the drivers, though >they are supposed to be invisble to code which doesn't use them (they share >address space with the FP stack, I think) - maybe someone used something in >a flag or control register which differs between the two processors? Still... might there be other methods of installing Mandrake on a L70, or was this te only method available? Matt _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
