Re: EMC Help

Jon Elson wrote:

>
> From: Jon Elson <jmelson@...>
>
> Tim Goldstein wrote:
>
> > From: "Tim Goldstein" <timg@...>
> >
> > Jon,
> >
> > I am running Linux and EMC very successsfully on an AMD K6 machine. It is a
> > 350 mhz machine with the 2D AMD processor.
> >
> > Tim
> > [Denver, CO]
> >
> > > From: Jon Elson <jmelson@...>
> > > I have a Windows machine with an AMD chip in it (K6). It also will not
> > > run Linux. The boot disks will boot up the minimal kernel, but any
> > program
> > > you try to run crashes it. So, now when I set up a Linux system, I always
> > > make sure it has a REAL Intel Pentium chip of some sort in it.
>
> Yup, all these different boxes are making me confused. It WAS the CYRIX
> cpu that wouldn't run Linux, just like the other person commented.
> We have 3 different real Intel Pentium machines, and Linux is working quite
> well on them. I've had experience with 2 different Cyrix machines, and both
> had very wierd problems running Linux. One was absolutely kaput, it would
> barely get the kernel unpacked before it panic'ed, the other would run a little,
> but crash when you tried to run any major program like a compile, XFree86
> or such.
>
> Sorry for the misinformation, glad to know the AMD does work fine.
>
> Jon
>

Jon;

I had no problem running Linux with my Cyrix 150+,
no crashes and emc simulation worked great. The problem
I had was when trying to use shared memory with rtlinux.
I would get segmentation faults, whatever that means.
went with an Intel chip and all problems went away.

Bill