28 Aug
2001
28 Aug
'01
5:55 p.m.
Hi,
Anybody installed GNU/Linux computers with M2/Cyrix/AMD cpu. Have you
encountered any problems. A friend of mine has a M2 system and wants to
install gnu/linux on it and wanted to know if there are any known problems
since these are not Intel chips.
I plan to do a course in c, c++ and unix. Any good institutes that you know
of. I stay at borivili and work at nariman point and am looking towards an
institute in the western suburbs. Also, any good books you recommend.
Regards,
Noel.
Gnu/Linux registered user #226476
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29 Aug
29 Aug
2:07 a.m.
noel seq wrote on Tuesday, August 28, 2001
Anybody installed GNU/Linux computers with
M2/Cyrix/AMD cpu.
Have you
encountered any problems. A friend of mine has a M2
system and
wants to
install gnu/linux on it and wanted to know if there
are any
known problems
since these are not Intel chips.
I have AMD K6 II 500. Am using Linux since last one yr or so. It
rocks. As u might be aware, AMD cpu are known for overheating
problem. However I had never had any overheating problem while
using Linux (oops, GNU\Linux !) for whatever number of hrs even
while X was running. Don't know the reason behind this, but in
Win98 it never used to give me good performance. And before
upgrading to AMD, I was using Cyrix MII 233. It was also giving
decent performance under both the OSes. However, used Linux for
very small time then. Used to reboot after every 4-5 hrs of
continuous usage !
BTW, I have not heard of M2 cpu before. Who are the
manufacturers?
I plan to do a course in c, c++ and unix. Any good
institutes
that you know
of. I stay at borivili and work at nariman point and
am looking
towards an
institute in the western suburbs. Also, any good books
you
recommend.
Nothing better than joining NCST ! They now have centres both at
Borivli and Nariman Point. However for starting off, I think, SSi
is a good institute. But lot depends on the faculties at
individual centres. I had joined SSi, Kandivli (W). Setup was
really good with decent Lab. No library though. I think they have
a course which exactly matches yr requirement. C, C++, Unix.
And for the Books, My favourites:
1. Let us C - Yeshwant Kanitkar (Quite smooth for
Beginners in Programming)
2. Programming in ANSI C - Ram Kumar Agarwal (Covers most aspects
of ANSI C)
3. C++ Complete Reference - Herbert Schildt (Spelling of the
surname may be wrong)
4. The C++ Programming Language - Bjourne Stroustrup (The baap of
all C++ Books,
very difficult to digest for beginners in OOP)
5. The Unix Programming Environment - Kerninghan & Rob Pike
(Equally good for
beginners as well as for experts. Again from the creaters)
( Don't remember Publishers)
The order of list is not supposed to be considered. Nor is the
list comprehensive. Others may append their favourites to it. I
have not used the book on C by the creaters of C, but some ppl
swear by the book.
HTH,
Warm Regards,
$ sonpal -kj
7:23 p.m.
Sometime Today, Kinjal Sonpal assembled some asciibets to say:
Win98 it never used to give me good performance. And
before
upgrading to AMD, I was using Cyrix MII 233. It was also giving
decent performance under both the OSes. However, used Linux for very
small time then. Used to reboot after every 4-5 hrs of continuous
Back in '99, I used linux on a Cyrix 6x86 with an uptime of 150 days.
My foot got entangled in the power cord one day and took the sytem down.
The system had an average of five users always logged in, and served as
a mail server, web server, discussion board server and development
machine.
Philip
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2:52 p.m.
--- noel seq <noelseq(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Anybody installed GNU/Linux computers with
M2/Cyrix/AMD cpu. Have you
encountered any problems. A friend of mine has a M2
system and wants to
install gnu/linux on it and wanted to know if there
are any known problems
since these are not Intel chips.
I run 2 Linux systems at home, whose config is:
1. Cyrix MII/233 CPU, 32 MB RAM, 20 GB HDD, SiS 6215
video card, Compex NE2000 PCI clone LAN card (RTL 8029
chip), RH 6.2 (off the PCQ CD) - working fine since
early 2000
2. AMD K6-2/450 CPU, 64 MB RAM, 20 GB HDD, Trident AGP
video card, AC97 sound (both on-board), Surecom NE2000
PCI clone LAN card (again RTL 8029 based), RH 7.1 -
working fine since June of this year.
I do not think you ought to have any problems with
either of these CPUs.
Rgds,
Krishnan
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31 Aug
31 Aug
9:34 a.m.
New subject: [OT] Re: Cyrix, AMD cpu
2. AMD K6-2/450 CPU, 64 MB RAM, 20 GB HDD, Trident
AGP
video card, AC97 sound (both on-board), Surecom NE2000
PCI clone LAN card (again RTL 8029 based),
Hey, that Trident AGP video card is really an AGP card or
just a brand name, 'cause one of the my friend has that & neither
windows(both Me & 98) nor linux (Mandrake & Suse) recognizes it as an
AGP card. i mean the video card recognized but the 3D acc. doesn't work :(
--
Registered GNU/Linux User #188850
1 Sep
1 Sep
8:06 p.m.
New subject: Trident Card [was Re: Cyrix, AMD cpu]
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Harshal Patil wrote:
Hey, that Trident AGP video card is really an AGP
card or
just a brand name, 'cause one of the my friend has that & neither
windows(both Me & 98) nor linux (Mandrake & Suse) recognizes it as an
AGP card. i mean the video card recognized but the 3D acc. doesn't work :(
I use a Trident 975 4MB AGP card. Gives good performance both under
WinNT as well as Linux. In WinNT I am able to watch full screen Video CD
playback, without any problem.
Rajen.
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S. Krishnan