Re: FPU

1998-08-26 Thread Michele Bini
appears and the boot stops. The manual says that an FPU is not needet to run Debian. This is true, but you should choose a kernel with FPU emulation compiled-in or. -Michele

FPU

1998-08-23 Thread Georgios Dimitriadis
I recently tried to install debian on my laptop, 386sx. I have 5M of free RAM and acording to the installation guide it is enough. The problem is that when i try to boot from the disk the error message cant find coprossesor or math emulation appears and the boot stops. The manual says that an FPU

Controlling the FPU under Linux

1997-10-17 Thread Chris Hanson
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 16:28:12 +0200 From: Thomas SCHIEX [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd like to know if anybody has experience in finely controlling the FPU under Linux (I'm under Debian 1.3.1). I need to control the rounding mode of the FPU (rounding up or down instead of to nearest

Controlling the FPU under Linux

1997-10-13 Thread Thomas SCHIEX
Hello, I'd like to know if anybody has experience in finely controlling the FPU under Linux (I'm under Debian 1.3.1). I need to control the rounding mode of the FPU (rounding up or down instead of to nearest). I found /usr/include/i386/fpucontrol, but I cannot get the following program to give