On Saturday June 7 2003 02:39 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > Has anyone installed Mandrake on a mini ITX form factor board? > I'm thinking the 800 Mhz with a 30 GB slim disk would fit in the > radio slot on my Jeep real nice.(and I would be able to play any > format wav Mp3 Ogg Vorbis etc.
I don't (wouldn't) have one. The VIA-Cyrix processors report themselves as i686. They're not, they're not even fully i586, retaining some i486 only capabilities. Mandrake i586 installs on these systems can be a problem, as when a i686 cpu is reported, the install will try to use /lib/i686/ libraries for a little more optimization. The VIA C3 cpu's won't work with i686, and barely with i586. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/90errata.php3#viac3 I believe 9.1 is fixed to cope with VIA C3's. There's quite a bit of info on the Web about C3's. One bit is the 800mhz C3 performs at about 400mhz levels due to dated design and inadequate L caches. It's really only the old Cyrix cpu with VIA's name tacked on. You might wanna do a lot more checking before goin for one of these systems, specially for multimedia use. -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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