Jeremy Tregunna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > I just installed hamm on a cyrix 686 system from scratch and > > I have 2 problems: > > > > 1. X11 crashes about once in a hour for no apparent reason. > > Cyrix has a big problem, what you could try and do is underclock your CPU > from say 233 for example, to 200, if you still get this problem, it's > because Cyrix makes really shitty CPU's and such, and are not really > reliable.
Hmm, that's funny. Mine works just fine. And it's reliable. > > 2. The kernel compile fails during the make menuconfig or make > > xconfig. At the first invocation of gcc the compiler dies > > saying "internal error - cc1 killed by signnal 11". > > A sig11 error from gcc usually indicates hardware fault... and since > cyrix's are crappy machines (in my opinion and known as a fact) this would > be your problem. I would suggest (if you can) dropping the cyrix and > picking up a pentium, or a k6. Or maybe new ram. > > I never installed Debian on a Cyrix, is this a known cyrix problem? > > If not what can be the cause? I've compiled the kernel many times with my 200 and 233. I have not had a problem with Cyrix yet. But that's not going to stop me from getting an AMD for some floating point improvements. At work I have a pentium 133 machine. It would give me sig 11 all the time until I tried out some different ram. Works fine now. Hth. -- -- Mike Brownlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://ctelcom.net/mike/ -- "The Roaring 90's ... have you ever been depressed?"
