Hello all,
It's far too quiet for a dull sunday afternoon so here's one.
I am having trouble compiling a new 2.4.2 kernel on a new Debian unstable
installation. I believe the problem is I lack gas. No, truly.
I can't find it it any available package but I gather it should be part of
binutils.
Anyone know what's the story, Rory?
The reason for the install (re-install) is that the machine has been behaving
badly - lots of SCSI bus timeouts and so on.
Now, I gather that the Via Apollo MVP3 chipset that the motherboard uses has a
less than honourable reputation. Can anyone confirm that there are problems
with this chipset? A dim memory persists of having read of a recent kernel
patch to fix difficulties with some Via chipsets but I can't turn it up.
Machine details:
FIC VA-503+ motherboard
Via Apollo MVP3 chipset
128 Mb SDRAM
AMD K6-3/400 processor
Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI adapter
Quantum Atlas IV 9 gig HD
Pioneer 40x SCSI CD-ROM
TIA,
David
"Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative." - Oscar Wilde
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