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28 Jul 2024 10:15:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Problem with benchmark.pov and 3.5  
From: Geoff Reidy
Date: 6 Aug 2002 08:55:02
Message: <3d4fc726@news.povray.org>
On 08/06/2002 05:48 AM, Micha Riser wrote:
> I just did a 400x300 rendering of benchmark.pov which worked fine.
> 
> geoff wrote:
> 
>>It's an Athlon 2000 XP running Mandrake 8.2.
>>gcc 3.1.1 or 3.2 makes no difference.
>>Motherboard A7V333 with kernel  2.4.19-rc3-ac2 compiled with gcc3.1.1
>>Seems stable otherwise, quake3 will run as long as I can be bothered
>>letting it run, ditto memtest86.
> 
> 
> Hmm.. strange. Have you tried on a bit-more-official linux kernel? Have you 
> tried other sences that use photons (e.g. optics.h)?
> 
> - Micha
> 

I can render optics.pov ok.

I am using such a new kernel because the original Mandrake one doesn't 
have drivers for the southbridge chip on the motherboard but I will give 
it a go when I reboot next.

I noticed you have produced some more binaries so I will try those too.
Cheers for making them available.

Geoff


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