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.
> 
> 

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