Re: Floating Point Exception with Linux 2

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From: Steven Butler
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 00:00

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In <321e1abb.0@wero.ee.cit.ac.nz> bywateri@ee.cit.ac.nz (Richard Bywater) writes:

First, I have to emphasis that you should read the Changes file that
is located in the Documentation directory.

>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?

This is in the Changes file.  Basically you need a new version of procps.

>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 recall there was some problems with sb configuration in this kernel.
Upgrade to 2.0.14 and it should work fine.  Mine does and I have a sb16.

Cheers,
Steve.
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Cheers,
Steve.
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From: seb@cs.uq.edu.au (Steven Butler)
Subject: Re: Floating Point Exception with Linux 2
Date: 1996/08/23
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