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opera crashing on VIA C3 CPU - any hints?
Hello,i desparately try get opera running on tincycore linux, but only version 9 and 10 seem to run fine.
the tinycore package for opera 11 and opera "next" (i.e. some more recent version) both fail with a SIGILL error. And so does Version 11.51 for i386 downloaded from the opera website and installed in /home/tc
I assume this is some processor incompatibility, but most other software in windows or linux is running fine on that system and VIA C3 is i386 compatible, afaik and since i did NOT use a build for i586 or i686, i'm curious if this is a build/compiler issue or whatever...
Any hints how to fix this or to find what the problem is ?
i have attached the cpuinfo and the crash-dump is at http://87.79.93.35/bugs/crash20111018190904.txt
any help would be very welcome.
ah - and one more question: in a top-post in this forum i'm told i should try a static opera build instead of the dynamic one - but where do i find a static version of opera 11.51 ?
regards
roland
processor : 0
vendor_id : CentaurHauls
cpu family : 6
model : 7
model name : VIA Ezra
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 399.000
cache size : 64 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow up
bogomips : 798.38
clflush size : 32
cache_alignment : 32
address sizes : 32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
Despite the naming our packages are not really i386 packages. They are actually i686 packages and hence that is why they will not run on your processor.
They are named that way because it complicates installation on some distros, even where those distros are running on machines with more recent processors. We could rename the tar packages with no potential ill effects due to them not being a native package format for any distro. However, for now we have left them as i386, so that they match the other packages.
In summary, we do not support your processor any more, I am genuinely sorry to say. Also, yes we are now effectively using i386 to mean 32-bit, which is not technically correct.
They are named that way because it complicates installation on some distros, even where those distros are running on machines with more recent processors. We could rename the tar packages with no potential ill effects due to them not being a native package format for any distro. However, for now we have left them as i386, so that they match the other packages.
In summary, we do not support your processor any more, I am genuinely sorry to say. Also, yes we are now effectively using i386 to mean 32-bit, which is not technically correct.
ok, that`s an answer. thanks!
too bad that opera is not an option for these nice platform anymore, but i think that`s life and we have other browser options.....
anyway, please consider renaming at least the tar.gz archives to reflect the architecture the containing binary is meant for - i`m a little bit disappointed that i wasted my time with a software which was not meantfor i386 at all - and i could neither recognize this from the package name nor did the installer tell that i was about to install on a non-supported architecture/cpu. so - you simple need to KNOW this, and this took not only my time but also yours.
anyway, thank you for the quick response !
too bad that opera is not an option for these nice platform anymore, but i think that`s life and we have other browser options.....
anyway, please consider renaming at least the tar.gz archives to reflect the architecture the containing binary is meant for - i`m a little bit disappointed that i wasted my time with a software which was not meantfor i386 at all - and i could neither recognize this from the package name nor did the installer tell that i was about to install on a non-supported architecture/cpu. so - you simple need to KNOW this, and this took not only my time but also yours.
anyway, thank you for the quick response !
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