On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 01:03:37AM -0500, Bryan Tyson wrote:
I guess a K62 500 MHz is not very modern, but I would hardly consider it obsolete. It has plenty of pep for use in the office. Linux used to have an advantage for working with older hardware. It looks like that advantage is being lost.
SuSE 8.1 works just great for me on this hardware: CPU: AMD K6-2 500MHz MoBo: FIC PA2013 /proc/cpuinfo: processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 5 model : 8 model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping : 12 cpu MHz : 501.148 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow k6_mtrr bogomips : 999.42 I believe in your case it's sooner a problem with chipset than with CPU. Regards, -Kastus