[Nelug] fc4 on via c3 processor

[Scott Wilcox]

Out of curisosity, whats distro do you use Richard? :)

Scott.

Richard Patterson wrote:

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>>Hi Guys,
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>>I have a mini-itx box running fedora since fc2, however I have
>>always had a problem of it randomly rebooting I did fix the problem
>>on fc2 by means of getting the i586 kernel as suggested by the
>>fedorafaq guide, this did fix the problem hoever I have the problem
>>again on fc4 tried the same guide but getting the fc4 i586 kernal
>>but this doesn't seem to of fixed the problem I was doing yum update
>>when it rebooted the last time.
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>>Info on the redhat site does mention that it should work fine on via
>>c3 processor but it didn't work right, had problems getting it to
>>install in the first place, locking up and so on.... fc2 and fc3
>>worked fine, and random rebooting was fixed with a new kernel.
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>>specs are
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>>EPIA M10000
>>VIA C3 Processor
>>1GB RAM
>>Everything else on board.
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>Hi,
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>I don't have much experience of either FC4 or the C3 processor, but
>maybe you will need to recompile the kernel manually, either that, or
>some of the other stuff in FC4 has been compiled for Pentium 4 or
>something...
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>I don't want to sound like the usual "use a different distro" bunch,
>but it might be time to try another distro... Ubuntu seems to have
>good support for the C3... (you could always gentoo if you have a
>couple of weeks to spare ;-) )
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>I have done a bit of digging, and found a few forums discussing C3
>optimizations, a some people are talking about a distro called
>"Beatrix" (http://www.watsky.net/)
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>Hope this helps
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>Regards
>
>Richard
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