There are several hardware incompability issues between PIII and P4 - this was told to me by Oracle Tech support, because Oracle installation a P4 1.7 machine went nuts - Oracle claimed it a P4 chip bugs (whatever they are) Best bet would be to recompile it on P4 machine.
Suhaib > -----Original Message----- > From: Lloyd A Treinish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 5:43 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [opendx-users] problems on a new, borrowed Linux system > > > > I am trying to run OpenDX on a borrowed machine and I am > getting strange behavior. I wondered if anyone has tried DX > on this hardware and experienced any difficulties. Of > course, it's with h/w and a configuration I haven't seen > before that someone else set up... > > It has an Intel Pentium 4 (1.7 GHz), 1 GB RAM, FireGL4, > RedHat 7.1, XFree86 4.0.3. As it's borrowed (and I can't > keep it), I'm not in a position to make major changes. The > primary problems are: 1. hardware rendering doesn't work -- > core dumps. I did upgrade to the latest version of the > FireGL driver from ATI. The only other graphics hardware > I've used on Linux is from nVidia (several cards), all of > which worked fine. 2. Large networks hang when running from > the ui. They run just fine in the executive, so I know the > nets are fine. Of course, this is using s/w rendering and > the nets work on other machines. > > I am using the 4.1.3 rpm (version 2) provided by Dave > Thompson. This version works on Pentium-III RH systems with > nVidia cards. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks. > >
