You may be having problems with m6 because of the pentium
optimization that is built into this release. I can only suggest
you upgrade your hardware or try rh6 (sorry mandrake folks,
anyone have a better idea?)
hih
nick@nexnix
At 10:25 21/06/99 -0800, you wrote:
>I have had MAJOR problems with my Cyrix board and Mandrake.
>Random failures in all places, and especially in X, to the point it
>was unusable. Strange, since the same box has been running old
>Slackware for a year without a hiccup. So I tried Slackware 4.0,
>with much better results. So far, no problem at all - except that
>Slack is more trouble to set up.
>
>Irv
>
>On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
>> I have *heard* that Cyrix does not do well with Linux, period, but this is
>> just hearsay. I don't recall what sort of video hardware you're using
>> either... You really might want to consider getting a new processor and
>> leaving that Cyrix for WinBlows or Dos or something else... I really
haven't
>> heard much good about the Cyrix chips after they virtually disappeared
>> several years ago... IIRC, they were considered somewhat "buggy" even back
>> when they made 486 chips.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Andrew Weller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> > Please help,
>> >
>> > I've been trying to install and configure Venus now for well over a week.
>> > I'm sure that I have set all my hardware up correctly during install, but
>> > there seems to be a major problem, and it sounds as though others (with
>> > Cyrix chips) have encountered it.
>> >
>> [SNIP]
>> >
>> > I only have Venus on my machine, and I know everything is set up
correctly
>> > (hardware wise). Is there a problem with Venus under Cyrix chips
>> (P150+'s)??
>> > etc..... I have had the advice to downgrade to 5.3 as it is more
>> stable!!!!
>> > But, is there a quicker answer?
>> >
>
>
