From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 12 13:57:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA03165 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 13:57:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aeffle.Stanford.EDU (sequence.Stanford.EDU [171.65.76.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA03155 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 13:57:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by aeffle.Stanford.EDU; id AA16938; Wed, 12 Jun 1996 13:57:48 -0700 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 13:57:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew To: Jeffrey Wheat Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Cyrix 6x86 and X11 rebooting In-Reply-To: <199606112102.RAA00332@tad.cetlink.net> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Jeffrey Wheat wrote: > I just installed a FIC motherboard with a Cyrix 6x86 155+ chip into my > workstation and I am having problems with XFree86 rebooting. I have rebuilt > my kernel (2.1-960606-SNAP) to include 486 and 586 support. I have in the > system, an adaptec 2940, a hercules Ark1000 Pro pci video and a SMC 9332 > pci 10/100 ethernet card. The system has 32 megs of ram. When I boot the > system, the CPU is detected as a 486 CPU. When I try and run X, the system > starts to load X and then the screen blanks out and reboots. My question is > will there be support ofr the Cyrix 6x86 chip and is there a work around for > my problem? The system otherwise runs very well and is rather quick compared > to a similar Pentium 150 based machine. Any help in this matter would be very > much appreciated as I am considering upgrading another 6 machines to these > boards/processors. > > Regards, > Jeffrey > Which FIC motherboard are you using? Something must be flaky with your setup because well sell the FIC motherboard with the Cyrix 6x86 P150+ and they run FreeBSD flawlessly. If you have a FIC PA-2002 motherboard, the manual mentions a few CMOS settings you need to change (I think the Adaptec 2940 requires a special CMOS setting). ---- || Shoppers Network BEST PRICES, FULLY x86 COMPATIBLE & FAST!!! || PO BOX 16627 Cyrix 686s now available! || San Francisco, CA 94116 Email - info@shoppersnet.com | ------------------------------> WWW - http://www2.shoppersnet.com -------------------------------> WWW - http://www.shoppersnet.com/shopping