installation check

[Sam Steingold]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general as well.

Hi Andy,

> * Andy Green <srqben at jnezpng.pbz> [2004-04-23 22:50:58 +0100]:
> On Friday 23 April 2004 21:34, Sam Steingold wrote:
>> > and/or using NVidia drivers?
>> how do I know?
>
> You don't sound like the kind of gnu.org guy to be using the nVidia
[my religion is not Free Software, and RMS is not my prophet]
> binary-only drivers that are not part of Fedora.

It does appear that I have an nVidia card (it is mentioned in the
XFree86 log) NV5M64 [TIVA TNT2 Model 64].

I just installed RC1 from a CD on a fresh HD, and I did not do anything
unusual (like d/l binary drivers &c)

> Has the RAM in this machine happily worked with other OSes?

I have 512MB of RAM, and this is a single-boot machine.

> What happens during the crashes -- machine locks up?
no.

I have had this box for 2 years, always running RH - first it was 8,
then 9, now RC1.  No complaints until last fall.
Last Fall (I mentally connect this with transition from RH9 to FC1) it
started "acting funny": I can no longer build CLISP (segfault on first
GC) and Emacs (segfault on unexec).
Recently HD failed and I hoped that the new HD will fix the problem,
but this did not happen.

I am completely lost as to what the cause could be.

> Have you looked in your logs for strange events?
no, what should I look for?

> Does sound work okay?
yes.

> What kind of CPU is it?
Athlon XP 1800+

> Overclocked?
no.

> What kernel version?
whatever comes with FC1 (2.4....nptl...)

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