
Diamond Systems Universal Driver 5.91 For Linux

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

The Linux community recently began a major transition from GCC version 2 to
version 3.  GCC is the compiler used to build Linux.  The compatability issues
for libraries, executables, and kernel modules are not fully understood at
this time.

To provide the highest level of safety Diamond Systems is offering separate
installers for these two configurations.  You must be careful to select the
correct one to install on your system.  It is also important that you make
sure that your development systems and target systems use the same version of
the compiler.  Mixing the two has resulted in mysterious crashes and other
failures on our systems.


FINDING YOUR GCC VERSION

You can run the following command on your Linux system to determine what
version of GCC you are using:

  $ gcc -v

For example, on a Red Hat 8 system (GCC 3) the following will appear:

  gcc version 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)

As another example, on a Red Hat 7.1 system (GCC 2) the following appears:

  gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-81)


SELECTING AN INSTALLER

In the "gcc2" and "gcc3" directories you'll find a a simple gzip'd tar archive
of the driver built using that compiler version.  Follow these steps to
extract it and install the files in the correct default location.

  $ tar zfx dscud-5.91.tar.gz
  $ mv dscud5 /usr/local/

See the README file in the new driver directory for more information on
installing the driver.

