The Problem with the Cyrix is the Heatsink. Take good care that the motherboard has a good heatsinc and be prepared for a lot of energy being used. Besides this get a program called set6x86, I don't know where it is but you should be able to find it in freshmeat.net or yahoo :)) It lets you get the maximum speed out of the cyrix as well as let the cpu be turned to power save mode while idling. Cheers Michael BTW I am using a 6x86 166 with a ASUS T2P4 at 83 MHz Bus Speed with no rpoblems. Kernel Version is 2.2.1, all progbrams compiled with pgcc-1.1.1 and optimized mostly with -O6 -mcyrix6x86 On 09-Feb-99 Andy Ford wrote:
Zulfiqar Naushad wrote:
I found an excellent deal for a Cyrix 6x86 P150+ based system. Only 150 Canadian Dollars with 1 Gig HDD and 14 inch monitor!! :-)
However, before I go ahead and get it, I wanted to know if there was any linux related bugs in the chip.
I remember reading that Cyrix chips were buggy under Linux, and that a
This is purely anecdotal evidence, but I have a Cyrix P-166+ that works with name brand motherboards (FIC or Iwill), but it locks up every few days on a cheap generic motherboard (biostar). It could just be this chip, but ... -- yours, Andy - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>
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