Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!replicant.csci.unt.edu!jackson From: jackson@replicant.csci.unt.edu (Bruce Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD 2.1.1 support Cyrix 6x86??Etc... Date: 25 Jun 1996 00:58:43 GMT Organization: University of North Texas, Denton Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4qndk3$as2@hermes.acs.unt.edu> References: <Dt5v2D.A6I@news2.new-york.net> <4qjgpi$4ds@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4qnbps$60e@hole.sdsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: replicant.csci.unt.edu In article <4qnbps$60e@hole.sdsu.edu>, Larry Riedel <larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu> wrote: > I have a 120MHz 6x86 on an ASUS T2P4 motherboard, and FreeBSD > 2.1-RELEASE faithfully crashes after a few minutes with the internal > cache enabled. If I turn the internal cache off with the BIOS, it > works like a champ (albeit a slow champ). I don't know if it is the > interaction of the CPU and the motherboard or if it has something to > do with FreeBSD. Not sure what your problem is. I have a 100MHz Cyrix 6x86 on a M-Technologies mothorboard and it is quite robust without disabling anything. It could be that ASUS+Cyrix isn't a good combination but the same chip works fine on my system. -- Bruce Jackson | P. O. Box 13886-NT | GAB 550E UNIX Systems Admin. | Denton TX 76203-3886 | (817)565-2279 Computer Sciences | jackson@cs.unt.edu | FAX (817)565-2799 Univ. of North Texas | http://replicant.csci.unt.edu/~jackson/