Alpha Core 3

[Oliver Falk]

Sergey Tikhonov schrieb:
> On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 21:27 +0100, Oliver Falk wrote:
>   
>> Sergey Tikhonov schrieb:
>>     
>>> Jay Estabrook wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 11:03:13AM -0300, Fernando Carnero wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> jejejeje, yep of, less diplomatic but same answer :))
>>>>> ATI is a bad chice to work in Linux enviroment, I probe with ATI 
>>>>> driver, glx and DRI and never work fine, I prefere lost my time 
>>>>> eating pizza and not configuring ATI ;)
>>>>>   
>>>>>           
>>>> I've had nothing but good results recently under AC3 with many Radeons
>>>> and even a Rage 128, including reasonable stability with 3D apps.
>>>>
>>>> The older Mac64 cards may be an entirely different story, however,
>>>> given your experiences.
>>>>
>>>> Rergardless, here's  what I think happened to make the "atimisc" driver
>>>> fail on Alpha:
>>>>
>>>> Here we see the "./configure" line that starts the build:
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> + ./configure --build=alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu 
>>>>> --host=alphaev56-unknown-linux
>>>>> -gnu --target=alpha-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --prefix=/usr 
>>>>> --exec-pref
>>>>> ix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc 
>>>>> --datadir=/usr/s
>>>>> hare --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib 
>>>>> --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --loc
>>>>> alstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/usr/com --mandir=/usr/share/man 
>>>>> --infodir=/usr
>>>>> /share/info --disable-static
>>>>>   
>>>>>           
>>>> I've not been able to figure out where the "alphaev56-*" is always
>>>> coming from, as I know I'm building on an EV6 machine...
>>>>         
>> Check out /etc/rpm/platform; We need to fix this for the different 
>> sub-archs I believe... And then check /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/*.
>>
>> Arg. Even uname -m reports the wrong thing on my DS10. :-( Havn't 
>> checked the AS1000 yet.
>>
>> [root at gosa ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep EV; uname -m; cat /etc/rpm/platform
>> cpu model               : EV67
>> alpha
>> alpha-redhat-linux
>>     
> I see the /usr/lib/rpm/macros defines _host and other vars as alphaev56
> (I guess this is because the package was build on my ev56 machine).
>
> Try to run /usr/lib/rpm/config.guess. What does it guess about your
> machine?
>   

[root at gosa ~]# /usr/lib/rpm/config.guess
alphaev67-unknown-linux-gnu

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