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Article #382Re: Floating Point Exception with Linux 2
From: Matt Jenkins
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 00:00
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Richard Bywater (bywateri@ee.cit.ac.nz) wrote:
: Hi - not sure if this is a hardware problem but anyway...
:
: I recently installed Linux 2.0.0 without much hassle. However now when I
: do certain commands (Top for instance) it comes up with Floating Point
: Exception and then quits the program being run. I have a Pentium 133 so
: I decided to remove Kernel Math Emulation - Should I leave it in?
:
: Also when I tried patching the 2.0.0 base code up to 2.0.4 it wouldn't
: compile due to:
: No rule to make target sb_audio.o needed by sound.a
: I noticed that when I used the 2.0.4 patch quite a few of the patches
: failed. Has anybody else had this? (BTW I've installed the sb204 patch
Did you also use the 2.0.1,.0.2,.0.3 patches ??
That might explain your problem.
Patches are meant to upgrade the previous release - 2.0.0 is not the previous
release as far as 2.0.4 is concerned.
:
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Matt(hew) Jenkins. 2nd yr. Computer Science (RMIT Bundoora)
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