FC2 on Alpha

[Andrija Pantovic]

Thanks to great work done by Mike Barnes and Christian Balint I have my PWS600 
happily running FC2. I use it primarily as a desktop so I was testing mostly 
GUI related components. I am using KDE (seems to be more stable then GNOME). 
Xorg runs smoothly and it seems to be rock solid on my Matrox G200 (I am 
having xorg-6.7.0-5 with alpha_elfloader_support_R_ALPHA_SREL32 patch 
applied).

Here are some problems/findings I found so far:

- mozilla-1.4.1, xmms-1.2.10, java-1.3.1, Ksplash are all crashing with 
SIGSEGV. After running them in gdb I saw all of them crashing 
in /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (part of glibc RPM). java and mozilla are 
crashing even in the same function - __pthread_init_static_tls. I am about to 
post these findings to related bugzillas but I wonder if we actualy have a 
problem with current glibc (I have glibc-2.3.3-36icbinu1 installed)
- alsa module snd-es18xx.ko is not working - I managed to activate my built in 
ESS1888 sound card using OSS (deprecated) sb.ko module
- USB built in (USB Controller: Contaq Microsystems 82c693) is not initialized 
by the ohci_hcd.ko module - this seems to be a known problem lasting since 
kernel 2.4.21. It looks it is related to IRQ treatment on MIATA - USB is 
defined as an ISA device in SRM yet it is recognized as an PCI device in 
Linux ... 
- I build a kernel customized for MIATA and got it hanging during init of 
IDE/ATAPI driver (CY82C693). I managed to override this problem disabling 
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ kernel option



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