[ug-bosug] Belenix LiveCD 0.5.1

[Moinak Ghosh]

USM Bish wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 07:00:49PM -0800, Anand Bheemarajaiah wrote:
>   
>> [...]
>> When i  insert the liveCD  and run from  it; it takes  me to
>> console login (  not graphical login screen ) but  then if i
>> type "startgui kde"  or "startgui xfce" i  get the following
>> errors -
>>
>> ld.so.1:  perl: fatal:  /lib/libm.so.2: hardware  capability
>> unsupported: 0x1000  [SSE2] /lib/svc/method/xserver[80]: 667
>> killed
>>
>> What do i do now ?
>>
>>     
>
> Shout for  Moinak to  help ! There  are some  licensing issues
> with the  Solaris libm, so Moinak  did a great job  of hacking
> the netbsd libm to play ball with Belenix ... IOW, the libm in
> belenix actually stands for  lib-Moinak (rather than the usual
> lib-math) ;-)
>   

   Well the current libm is the Solaris libm that has been opensourced. I am
   no longer using the FreeBSD libm.

> >From the error above, it does seem to be a h/w specific issue.
> OTOH,  nvidia support  under belenix/  solaris is  pretty good
> actually. What are the specifics of your system ? I too have a
> nvdia chip set on my P4  with an old nVidia Corporation NV5M64
> [RIVA TNT2 Model  64/Model 64 Pro] graphic card.  I have faced
> no issues with Belenix in any of the releases.
>   

   It happens on processors that do not support the SSE2 instruction set. It
   appears to be some problem with my build of the Solaris libm.

Regards,
Moinak.

> One thing  which may  help in  debugging is  to point  out the
> level of the error. What happens if you run 'xinit' directly ?
> My gut feeling  is that perl iteself (in belenix)  may need to
> be recompiled with lib-moinak !
>
> Bish
>
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