Re: EMC Help

Matt Shaver wrote:

>
> From: "Matt Shaver" <mshaver@...>
>
> > From: William Scalione <scalione@...>
> ...
> > My computer has 48 meg of ram and parallel port at 378h, cyrix 6x86
> > P-150+
>
> Hmm, 48 meg and a Cyrix CPU...
> ...
> > append="mem=47m"
>
> This is OK
> ...
> > I can run the frank zappa program
>
> I'm pretty sure that the Frank Zappa test uses only fifos and not shared
> memory
>
> ...
> > 7)run "insmod -v /usr/local/nist/emc/plat/rtlinux_09J/lib/steppermod.o
> > SHMEM_BASE_ADDRESS=0x2F00000 PARAPORT_IO_ADDRESS=0x378" - I get error
> > message "segmentation fault" (I am using 0x2F00000 for 48meg, is this
> > correct?)
>
> 0x2F00000 seems right to me.
>
> 1. You may want to review the information at:
> http://www.tux.org/~balsa/linux/cyrix/
>
> I'm wondering about the ARR (Address Region Registers) that are a Cyrix
> specific feature.
>
> From:
> http://www.tux.org/~balsa/linux/cyrix/p4.html
>
> "Non-power-of-two amount of DRAM systems
> In case your system has12Mb, 24Mb, 48Mb or 96Mb of total DRAM installed, you
> will notice that ARR6 has already been setup by the BIOS for an unused memory
> region."
>
> This site also has kernel patches and a utility program available that
> address Linux/Cyrix compatibility.
>
> 2. Another site that touches on related information is:
> http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/
>
> 3. Do you have a ChainTech 5ifm-0 motherboard? If so:
> http://turing.suse.de/sdb/en/html/maddin_ifm0.html
>
> Tell us more about your hardware!
>
> Matt Shaver
>

Matt;

Changed to 32 meg ram, changed lilo to "mem=31m", reran lilo, and
ADDRESS=0x1F00000
no help. Also tried to set aside 4 meg as shared with "mem=28m" again no
help.

The computer has a Bus Logic ISA SCSI card and an old 5 1/4 full height
2 gig
drive. Video card is a PCI Number 9, 1 meg, S3 chipset. monitor =
800x600. Generic
motherboard with an Award bios.

Tried to put the SCSI card and drive into my other computer but was not
able
to get the computer to even recognize the SCSI card. Don't know if that
would have
worked anyway, as that computer has an AMD 350 chip

I think i will try an Intel P166 chip in a couple of days and see if
that
clears up the problem. That is, if a friend of mine still has one laying
around.


Thanks bill
scalione@...