[wplug] Tutorial and Recompile Question

[Nate Sharadin]

Suse 7.1 uses 2.4.18 as a default (I dunno about 7.2), and I personally 
had some trouble when switching between a PIII and an Athlon. You 
definetly need to recompile or re-install... whichever you feel more 
comfortable with.


On Friday, July 19, 2002, at 02:21 PM, Bryce Lynch wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Robert Supansic wrote:
>
>> Finally: a question.  I recently replaced an Intel Pentium 133 MHz 
>> chip in a
>> fileserver with an AMD K-6 500 MHz chip.  The fileserver, which had 
>> been
>> running flawlessly 24x7 for over a year, is now locking up.  Should I
>> recompile the kernel or maybe re-install the distribution (SuSE 7.2)?
>
> SuSE v7.2..  I have no idea what kernel that is.
>
> Try recompiling first, if the system is stable enough.  In the kernel
> v2.2.19 configuration, the Pentium CPU and the Pentium II+ CPUs are two
> different options.  There might be just enough differences between a
> Pentium and an AMD core to make a kernel flaky.  In the kernel v2.4.18
> configuration, the Pentium-III and AMD K6-* cores have entirely 
> different
> options.  This seems like a more likely incompatibility, try a
> recompilation in this event.
>
> What kind of cooling do you have on the new CPU?  Maybe you fan's a 
> little
> too weak, or you need a better coating of heatsink grease on the CPU.
> I've had that happen to me a few times.  Reinstalling your system seems
> like a bit too extreme a solution to this, it's got to be something a 
> bit
> closer to the changes you'd made to the hardware.	
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