On Wednesday 09 October 2002 04:15 pm, rowland penny wrote: > On Tuesday 08 Oct 2002 8:35 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > It's part of glibc and if you have a 686 cpu (like a celeron) it does > > get used for the kernel. (Even in RH they do this) > > > > James > > mandrake is advertised as being i586 (or pentium) compatible not i686 > (celeron, p2,p3,p4) so why have a directory named i686?. redhat 8.0 loads > onto a epia based system without any trouble so why doesn't mandrake!
Mandrake works just fine on i586 processors. I run it on my i-opener with an IDT Winchip 200 MHz processor. It is possible, as someone has mentioned, that the chip you have lies about being a i686 when it's not fully compatible with that family. Try 'cat /proc/cpuinfo'. If it says "cpu family: 6", then that is the problem. As for the i686 directory: it's there so people who have a newer processor (which is probably more than 90% of the installs) have their system running faster. RH might not include this optimization, so it would run slower. I don't see why the majority of the users has to take a performance hit just so that one or two people with a buggy processor have problems. However, Mandrake could possibly detect the processor type and install a different set of libraries for weird CPUs. If you are really desperate, you can try moving that directory somewhere so that the libraries from it don't get loaded, if that's what's causing the problem. -- -- Igor
