Re: Milo on RH 7

[Michal Jaegermann <michal ellpspace math ualberta ca>]

> 
> i had trhe same experice..i noticed the milo with 7.0 said it was compiled 
> against suse..could that be the problem?

No, this is not a problem.  Milo is not using distribution libraries.
There could be bugs, or bad guesses, but this is not SuSE vs. Red Hat
or something like that.

> 
> >From: "Darren Breeze" <dbhk@alteredimages.com.hk>
> >
> >My Upgrade to RH 7.0 has been a mild disaster. I have a PC164 500mhz with
> >128 meg of ram and a SYM53c8xx scsi controller.
> >
> >All worked fine on RH 6.2 but on 7.0 the supplied milo fails to load

Now and forever - there is NO POINT in replacing milo on your machine if
the one you have loads your kernel.  If it does not, there is another
story.  For example, none of Ruffian milos in all 6.x Red Hat
distributions worked but as long as you are not trying to install on a
new machine from scratch this is even hard to notice.  BTW - currently
Red Hat is not "supporting" machines with milos at all.  It does not
mean that they will not work but only that it is up to you to fix things
if there are troubles.

> >startx actually locks up the machine

Bad configurations on some cards have this tendency with XFree 4.0.1, yes.

> >and the
> >/var/log/messages is full of unaligned traps.

And for that you have http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla

> >Any clues, have I missed something like "wait for 7.1"

If you will be waiting passively this can be a long wait.

  --mj