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Hi - not sure if this is a hardware problem but anyway...

I recently installed Linux 2.0.0 without much hassle.  However now when I
do certain commands (Top for instance) it comes up with Floating Point
Exception and then quits the program being run.  I have a Pentium 133 so
I decided to remove Kernel Math Emulation - Should I leave it in?

Also when I tried patching the 2.0.0 base code up to 2.0.4 it wouldn't
compile due to:
No rule to make target sb_audio.o needed by sound.a
I noticed that when I used the 2.0.4 patch quite a few of the patches
failed.  Has anybody else had this?  (BTW I've installed the sb204 patch
as well but to no avail)....

Please reply by email if possible...

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First, I have to emphasis that you should read the Changes file that
is located in the Documentation directory.

Quote:>Hi - not sure if this is a hardware problem but anyway...
>I recently installed Linux 2.0.0 without much hassle.  However now when I
>do certain commands (Top for instance) it comes up with Floating Point
>Exception and then quits the program being run.  I have a Pentium 133 so
>I decided to remove Kernel Math Emulation - Should I leave it in?

Quote:>Also when I tried patching the 2.0.0 base code up to 2.0.4 it wouldn't
>compile due to:
>No rule to make target sb_audio.o needed by sound.a

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Steve.
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BTW, that is the only problem I have seen in 2.0.x (I am not a power
user).
Maybe there have been more patches to what was supposed to be a stable
kernel
than there "should" have been, but I still crash windoze a lot more
often
than linux.

Gerry

: Hi - not sure if this is a hardware problem but anyway...
:
: I recently installed Linux 2.0.0 without much hassle.  However now when I
: do certain commands (Top for instance) it comes up with Floating Point
: Exception and then quits the program being run.  I have a Pentium 133 so
: I decided to remove Kernel Math Emulation - Should I leave it in?
:
: Also when I tried patching the 2.0.0 base code up to 2.0.4 it wouldn't
: compile due to:
: No rule to make target sb_audio.o needed by sound.a
: I noticed that when I used the 2.0.4 patch quite a few of the patches
: failed.  Has anybody else had this?  (BTW I've installed the sb204 patch
Did you also use the 2.0.1,.0.2,.0.3 patches ??

That might explain your problem.

Patches are meant to upgrade the previous release - 2.0.0 is not the previous
release as far as 2.0.4 is concerned.
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: : Hi - not sure if this is a hardware problem but anyway...
: :
: : I recently installed Linux 2.0.0 without much hassle.  However now when I
: : do certain commands (Top for instance) it comes up with Floating Point
: : Exception and then quits the program being run.  I have a Pentium 133 so
: : I decided to remove Kernel Math Emulation - Should I leave it in?
: :

You should read the changes file in the usr/src/linux/Documentation directory.

It specifically states that you need the procps 1.01 package or else you will
get floating point exception errors when you try to run anything to do with
the ps command.