On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 15:17, Praise wrote:
That's very strange, are you sure it is not a hardware fault? I have installed Suse 8.2 on 4 machines and none has instability problems.
I am quite confident this is not hardware fault, it might be related to
hardware, as the X31 is a Centrino 'thing' and as such is quite new. IDE
DMA did not start working until 2.4.21-pre5 iirc, and there has been
issues with radeonfb and DRI/DRM/AGP as well.
However, most of the time I have reported problems to the kernel mailing
list, they have pointed out, probably with justification, that kernels
compiled with GCC 3.3 is tantamount to suicide until the compiler have
settled down and the kernel people have worked out how to work around
compiler brain damage.
I have installed SuSE Pro 8.2 on a P-III 750MHz Dell laptop and not seen
any adverse effects, but everything worked out of the box there, no
hardware that required newer kernel to be supported.
All in all, I hope the 2.95.3 compiler sorts out the issues seen so far.
:-)
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Anders Karlsson