[CLUE-Cert] Athlon64 box

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 07-25 21:15, Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> I finally got started on trying to build LFS on the new box.  Much of 
> the hardware seems to be working ok, but I haven't tried burning CDs or 
> DCSs yet, and I don't know if the CompactFlash reader in the floppy 
> drive works.   Built -in Ethernet and sound are n't tested and the video 
> card has not been tested with X.
> 
> It looks like I need to build a cross-compiler in order to compile 
> 64-bit code for this system.  I expected something out of the ordinary 
> when I decided to use the Athlon-64.
> 
> There are two temperature sensors in the box.  I left them coiled up for 
> now, and they show an internal temperature of 85.4 degrees.  I will 
> probably monitor the CPU temperature later to see how hot it gets.
> 
> One interesting thing about a SATA drive.  It shows up as hde instead of 
> hda, apparently because the motherboard also has two regular ATA 
> connections.

Sounds interesting. Any chance you are bringing it tomorrow? We still are
meeting tomorrow, right?

Cheers,

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Sean LeBlanc:seanleblanc at comcast.net  
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