On 13-May-98 CyberMan wrote:
> 
>       I recompiled the kernel with the Cyrix patches downloaded from
> www.linuxhq.com and now my Cyrix PR150+ CPU is recognized as an IE86???
> Doing a cat /proc/cpuinfo shows the corect CPU type, but uname -m shows
> IE86.
> Because of this starnge thing I cannot install RPM packages. I always get
> the message that "this package is for anothe arhitecture". How can I fix
> this problem?

Get a real pentium, perhaps? :)

You can use the --force option to RPM, or check out the patch to 2.0.33
available at:

ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/alan/2.0.34pre/patch-2.0.34pre13.gz

That has a few `authorized' Cyrix patches in it, I believe..

Dave


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