Hi ,
I post my experience with alpha, (if it can help)
i'm running linux on alpha since the debian port was usable.
My hardware is a 21164 at 533 Mhz based on a LX2 Motherboard manufacted by
Digital. I notice the manufacturer, cause it seems that reported problems
with digital card and samsung are diffrents.
full scsi with ncr53c875 ,
ethernet card : 3c590 & dec 21041
external parallel zip drive.
I tried lots of kernel, compiled with : CONFIG_ALPHA_LX164 ,
during working, diffrent locks appears with this configuration,
after some reboots and fsck, i decided to compile kernel with the
CONFIG_ALPHA_EB164 enable, which is a more generic kernel configuration.
cpu : Alpha
cpu model : EV56
cpu variation : 0
cpu revision : 0
cpu serial number : Linux_is_Great!
system type : EB164
^^^^^
would be a LX (but it hangs)
With this configuration the system is really stable, and i can use
diffrent modules. I didn't have problems since this.
for the person who has a problem with zip drive, mine is running with a
modularized kernel :
[root]:1:#> uname -a
Linux alpha 2.2.12 #2 Tue Aug 31 10:45:20 CEST 1999 alpha unknown
[root]:2:#> lsmod
Module Size Used by
parport_pc 11224 1 (autoclean)
ppa 17072 1
parport 11128 1 [parport_pc ppa]
vfat 15672 0 (autoclean) (unused)
fat 43912 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
nls_iso8859-1 3424 1 (autoclean)
isofs 25144 1 (autoclean)
binfmt_aout 4968 3 (autoclean)
ip_masq_irc 2352 0 (unused)
ip_masq_ftp 3640 0 (unused)
3c509 9696 1
de4x5 55304 1
[root]:3:#>
Next , the PC164 and LX/SX164 diffrences ( according to the
motherboards documentation ), are cache size, ( 2,4Mo etc... ) and some
diffrences in RAM addressing.
For the person who have some problems with X , my Matrox Mystique PCI 4Mo
is running well, with Xfree 3.3.5 with binary AXP ,taking from the
xfree86 site.
I hope that this notifications will help some people. and sorry for this
long post.
Pier.
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Robb Romans wrote:
>
> No, you're not alone. I purchased my PC164 from an Ebay auction, and
> initially suspected that I got a bad board. However, Digital Unix ran
> perfectly, and enough other people have reported problems that I now
> suspect Linux itself.
>
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Pierrick Hascoet [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unix systems & networks administrator - *BSD , OSF , Linux , SunOS -
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