The upgrade involved was multifaceted. Motherboard, amount of RAM (as
well as going to SDRAM), video card (S3 Trio64 before), as well as the
CPU all changed. SCSI, networking, EIDE harddrives, floppy, and scsi
devices are the same.
2.1.106 failed to recognize my CPU (Cyrix MII-300) correctly and gave me
some functional problems as well (out of sight out of mind... sorry
can't elaborate). I made the 2.1.115 version my main stay, now I am
trying 2.1.117.
Symptoms are as follows (I don't know whether it is kernel, X, or both
hence the cross post): Console saver works 1/3 the time at best (notice
this is a _GUESS_ so it is probably much less than 1/3). X blanker
(screen saver) and APM monitor off no longer seem to work at all (they
may under GNOME, my main WM is fvwm2-95).
Beyond hardware changes, the only changes are kernel, a few start up
scripts (mostly to keep kerneld and such from running if they aren't
needed (three line change)), and the X3dlabs and the changes
Xconfigurator did when I ran it after getting the updated xconfig stuff
with X3dlabs server from XSuSE.
It is highly annoying to walk off expecting the screen at least to blank
and come back three hours later with it staring you in the face
happily. I have checked and rechecked all relevant config options and
can't see what I am doing wrong.
Changes in system are once again:
CPU: Pentium 133 -> Cyrix MII-300
Motherboard: Digital Starion 940 Main board -> Epox MVP3-E (VIA MVP3-E
chipset)
Memory: 72 meg normal 70 ns or better DRAM -> nondisclosed ammount of
PC-100 SDRAM memory
Video: S3 Trio64 -> Leadtek 2300 (Permedia 2 chipset) AGP with 8 meg
Kernel: 2.1.106 (seemed to work fine before new hardware... blanking
seemed to work
after... other problems forced the move one) -> 2.1.115 -> 2.1.117 (DMA
for IDE
turned on in this one)
XServer: S3 -> XSuSE 3DLabs
Note that I don't use the vesa console, I use the plain old text mode
one (vgacon).
I suppose that wraps up the needed info. If more specifics are needed
(SCSI card type, network or what not, I am sure I can post).
Thank you,
Trever Adams.
P.S. The above install of Linux is RedHat 5.1 with all relevant
(installed packages) errata updates installed.
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