I wrote, earlier:
> I installed Fedora Core 2 on an old Dell laptop (400 mhz celeron,
> latitude Cpt) and I was able to install and run poplog, but
> with strange intermittent errors.
>
> The basepop11 executable always seems to run OK. However saved
> images intermittently fail with a core dump.
>
> I was able to re-link poplog but that did not get rid of the problem.
>
> At first I thought that suggested some sort of hardware fault.
>
> However, I copied over a poplog tree built on redhat 9
> (using 2.4.26 kernel) and it ran without any problems in my not
> very exhaustive testing.
>
> I can make this available for downloading from the bham web site
> if that would be useful.
The version of FC-2 on which I had those problems used the 2.6.5
kernel.
On a newer laptop I have 2.6.6 installed over redhat 9, though I don't
normally use it because software suspend does not yet work properly.
However I booted up 2.6.6 and found that I could link and run poplog
without any problems at all.
So maybe the problem on FC2 has to do with the older kernel/
Anyhow, I don't intend to switch to any version of linux based on
2.6 until software suspend is fully functional (i.e. everything should
work after suspend and resume, as it does on 2.4.26). This means I
never need to reboot: I merely suspend and resume.
Aaron
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