From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Madore Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 00:41:25 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] TurboLinux Beta3 for IA64 available Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org TurboLinux Frontier IA-64 Beta 3 (2001-03-07) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the third beta release of TurboLinux Frontier IA-64. The distribution is available for download at the TurboLinux ftp site: ftp://ftp.turbolinux.com/pub/ia64/TLF-ia64-Beta3.iso ftp://ftp.turbolinux.com/pub/ia64/TLF-ia64-Beta3-nox.iso ftp://ftp.turbolinux.com/pub/ia64/Beta3/{RPMS,SRPMS} The first URL points to the ISO 9660 image which you can burn on a CD-ROM. This will give you a bootable CD from which to install the TurboLinux IA-64 distribution on your system. This image contains a graphical installer which is used to install the contents of the CD. The second ISO image contains a script-based installer which can be used if you have problems starting the X server during the install process. You can also use this disk as a "rescue disk". The third URL gives the locations of the binary and source RPMs. Updated RPMs for this release will be available at: ftp://ftp.turbolinux.com/pub/ia64/Beta3/updates IMPORTANT: The C-library and tool-chain in this release contain ABI changes that are not backward compatible with previous TurboLinux IA-64 releases that were based on glibc 2.1. If you are using this release, we highly recommend that you subscribe to our ia64-dist mailing list. All TurboLinux ia64 related questions should be directed there. For instructions on how to subscribe, please visit: http://www.turbolinux.com/mailman/listinfo/ia64-dist WHAT'S NEW ===== * The kernel is 2.4.1 + 01/31 IA-64 patch. The default SMP and UP kernels were compiled with workarounds for B- and C-stepping processors only. There is no support for A stepping processors. Also, the VHPT is disabled by default. * The kernel now contains the new kernel debugger code from Keith Owens. * Latest version of the gnupro toolchain (2.96-ia64-000717, snapshot 1117) with all recent patches applied. * Updated version of gdb and strace. * Updated XFree 4.0.2. This version is known to work on the following cards: Working cards ------------- (PCI) VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 39) (AGP) VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PF (rev 0) (PCI) VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC 215IIC [Mach64GT IIC] (rev 58) (AGP) VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 (rev 1) (PCI) VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RE (rev 0) (AGP) VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. Savage 4 (rev 2) (AGP) VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G200 AGP (rev 3) (PCI) VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RK (rev 0) (AGP) Nvidia Quadro (AGP) VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev4) * * X starts using 99.9% of CPU after displaying Gnome welcome screen. Using Option "noaccel" allows the server to start. Other cards may also work, but haven't been explicitly tested. The installer will currently only recognize the above cards. If you have a different card, you will have to manually select it during the X configuration. RECOMMENDED BIOS VERSIONS ============ 1) Workstations (BigSur) This release has been tested with BIOS 89B and 99. 2) Servers (Lion) We recommend that you upgrade to BIOS version 71. KNOWN PROBLEMS ======= 1) IMPORTANT. The settings for the QLogic SCSI adapter on Lions MUST be changed to support >4GB addressing. If this is not done, the install will fail. To change the setting, press ALT-Q when the QLogic BIOS screen comes up. Next, select the following menu items: Configuration settings Host adapter settings >4GByte addressing Save your changes, and exit from the QLogic configuration program. You don't have to enable >4G addressing on BigSur systems. 2) The integrated EEPRO network adapter in Lion systems currently suffers from the following issues: - If you have more than 1GB of RAM, networking will fail almost immediately after you start using it. To get around this, pass mem24MB as an argument to lilo. - Transferring certain files from an NFS server to the Lion will cause NFS to hang. The rest of the networking subsystem will continue to operate normally. This is being looked into by Intel. In the mean time, either don't transfer the problem files via NFS, or install an alternate network adapter. 3) Due to some unresolved issues with the current tool-chain, the following packages are not available in this release: * ispell Complete installation instructions can be found in the README file. -- Mike Madore Software Engineer TurboLinux, Inc.