Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 21:38:46 -0400
From: Scott Gibson <wsgibson@sprynet.com>
To: sparc-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: SS2 w/Weitek Processor

Ken Hansen wrote:
> 
> Mark (and everyone else),
>         I have an SS2 with a Weitek PowerUp chip, and I expected to have
> problems with an install of Red Hat Linux on it, so Iinvestigated and
> came across and individual who reported it to be working fine for him (WRT
> running Linux with a Weitek PowerUP chip) - I have forwarded your note on to 
> him and will ask that he joint this thread and see if he can help...
> 
> Ken
> khansen@njcc.com

It's true, I actually have 5 SPARCstation 2 systems running with the
Weitek Power-UP chips.  As I had mentioned to Ken, I've ran 4.2 and 5.1
with similar success.  The only problem I experience is that the X
server at times will barf and jump to 90+%, needing a reboot to solve
the problem.  The problem is intermittent and doesn't happen if I log
out of an X session frequently.  As far as installs, I've installed on
these systems many times for various testing purposes and have never had
an install problem other than the lack of disk space.

The systems I use are 100% Sun.  They all have 64MB RAM except for one
which has 32MB.  The latest PROM version is 2.6 with the newest being
2.9.  Whether any of this makes any difference I couldn't say.  It
certainly couldn't hurt.  A couple of the SS2's became Linux because
they couldn't be Jumpstarted anymore (because of the Weitek's).  The
consensus at work is that the Weitek is problematic.  I tried Linux to
see if it could breath life into these SS2's and it did.  I don't know
how much light this may shed on the problems everyone has been
experiencing but I hope it is a start.


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Scott Gibson
wsgibson@sprynet.com

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