I have been running Mandrake straight out of the box on a 233 Cyrix and also on
a 333 Cyrix with no problems -- so I wouldn't look at that as the problem.
Sounds more like they have the wrong X server video card selection.
BES
"Just because it was, doesn't mean it is!"
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, you wrote:
> What processors are in the machines? Mandrake is optimised
> for Intel Pentium and may cause problems like this when run
> on a Cyrix for example. Just a thought.
>
> ttfn
> nick@nexnix
>
>
> At 07:36 13/07/99 +0000, you wrote:
> >Hi everybody.
> >
> >One of our customers here asked us for 3 PCs to be used under Linux
> >(evaluation as a web development platform). We provided them with
> >3 identical PCs with components we knew to work with Linux (most of
> >them being in of my own machine, which runs perfectly) and convinced
> >them to buy a Mandrake Linux PowerPack 6.
> >
> >They insisted to install Linux themselves, thus, being unexperimented,
> >they picked up custom install with EVERY package selected and made
> >only 2 partitions (swap and /).
> >
> >All 3 PCs are SUPPOSED to be installed this same way, but now, as soon
> >as they open an X session (be it KDE or other), 2 of them COMPLETELY
> >FREEZE from 5 seconds to 5-10 minutes later. Even the keyboard does
> >not respond to NumLock changes...
> >
> >The funniest part: all 3 machines run Windows NT as well and do not have
> >any problem (which makes hard to think the problem is hardware related...).
> >I let you imagine them laughing at me who pretended they'd never see a
> >blue-screen feature anymore...
> >
> >Any suggestion about this one?
> >
> >I'm tempted to upgrade from "out of the box" Mandrake PowerPack 6 to
> >up to date RPMs but I fear it won't arrange anything, since:
> >
> >1/ I'm not running all upgrades myself (still 2.2.9-19mdk for instance,
> > without any problem so far - vmware 1.02 is not supposed to work with
> > 2.2.9.27mdk anyway, is it?) and
> >2/ one of these 3 clones is not experiencing these freezes.
> >
> >Kind regards,
> >
> >Yann
> >
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> >
> >
