On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, GREENE KENNETH ADAM wrote: > I was wondering about Linux and the Cyrix/IBM 6x86 > (specifically P120). Does Linux support it
I am running Debian GNU/Linux on an Cyrix/IBM P-150+ and it runs like a charm. No problems (yet). I am sporadically running maybe an hour a day for three or four months now. X works as well. > I know some video games don't support > the chip (or the chip doesn't support them |->). What?! Could you please post me more info about this. Which ones? I know Quake runs a little bit slower on Cyrixes because of the slower fpu (but still a lot faster per dollar than the pentium!!), and NT 4 has somewhat degraded performance which can be fixed with a patch. But so far (until now :) ) I haven't heard of *anything* that doesn't run at all on a Cyrix. > If it is supported, does everything run OK. AFAIK yes. I have seen some Cyrix kernel patches (on the Linux v2 info HQ), but I don't know what they actually do as I haven't tried them. There is also some programs which can view some Cyrix-specific registers but I haven't looked at them since I don't understand its uses. // Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2:201/262.37] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]