Re: K6 and Debian (and heatsinks)

1997-11-29 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 28 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A fried cpu is not always just dead. I've seen one that made funny things > with > interrupts, and that was hard to diagnose. This is why I always put heatsink goop on the chip, without it the heatsink/fan doesn't do much. The problems you can g

Re: K6 and Debian (and heatsinks)

1997-11-29 Thread Rick Hawkins
frank wrote, > Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > They work wonderfully. I have a k6-166 running at 210/83 > > quite happilly. However, it needs some cooling at this > > speed; until i get something more than this cheesy $2 fan, > > I need to keep the side off to compile (but not at > >

Re: K6 and Debian (and heatsinks)

1997-11-29 Thread liiwi
>> > >> > Most CPU fans I've seen come with a pad of conductive [something] which >> > goes between the processor and the heatsink. I would think that something >> > like this would be essential, given that the surfaces are probably not >> > perfectly flat (on a nano scale). >> I think it's more

Re: K6 and Debian, and fans

1997-11-28 Thread Rick Hawkins
Hammish wrote, > On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 02:15:49PM +0600, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > They work wonderfully. I have a k6-166 running at 210/83 quite happilly. > > However, it needs some cooling at this speed; until i get something more > > than > > this cheesy $2 fan, I need to keep the side off

Re: K6 and Debian (and heatsinks)

1997-11-28 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Frank Sergeant wrote: [ snip ] : : Does anyone have any experience with this? In : the old days, voltage regulators and power transistors : and such hot-running ICs usually were not just attached : to their heatsinks bare, but were smeared with : heatsink/thermal compou

Re: K6 and Debian (and heatsinks)

1997-11-28 Thread Dale Harrison
> > Most CPU fans I've seen come with a pad of conductive [something] which > goes between the processor and the heatsink. I would think that something > like this would be essential, given that the surfaces are probably not > perfectly flat (on a nano scale). I think it's more a case of sheer l

Re: K6 and Debian (and heatsinks)

1997-11-27 Thread Tommy Lakofski
Most CPU fans I've seen come with a pad of conductive [something] which goes between the processor and the heatsink. I would think that something like this would be essential, given that the surfaces are probably not perfectly flat (on a nano scale). On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Frank Sergeant wrote: >

Re: K6 and Debian (and heatsinks)

1997-11-27 Thread Frank Sergeant
Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > They work wonderfully. I have a k6-166 running at 210/83 > quite happilly. However, it needs some cooling at this > speed; until i get something more than this cheesy $2 fan, > I need to keep the side off to compile (but not at > 166/66). How is the

Re: K6 and Debian

1997-11-27 Thread Pere Camps
On 26 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Has anyone used with/out success a AMD K6 chip under Debian? > Yes, and it works fine. Ok. Thanks. Also, thanks to everyone else who has answered this same question. You're too many to reply one by one! Salutacions, Pere

Re: K6 and Debian

1997-11-27 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 02:15:49PM +0600, Rick Hawkins wrote: > They work wonderfully. I have a k6-166 running at 210/83 quite happilly. > However, it needs some cooling at this speed; until i get something more than > this cheesy $2 fan, I need to keep the side off to compile (but not at > 16

Re: K6 and Debian

1997-11-26 Thread richard
Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone used with/out success a AMD K6 chip under Debian? > > TIA! Yes, and it works fine. -- http://staff.elmail.co.uk/~richard/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e

Re: K6 and Debian

1997-11-26 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Charles Read wrote: > [BTW, I've concluded that unless > you find a PCL printer with PostScript capability, > you're stuck with either one that works really well > under Win95 (PCL) or one that works really well > under Linux (PostScript).]. PCL is HP not Win95. Or, in other

Re: K6 and Debian

1997-11-26 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Steve" == Steve Gaarder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> Ben Gertzfield writes: Ben> I adore my K6/200 with Debian. But make sure you get a recent Ben> revision of the chip -- old versions had an odd condition Ben> that made compiles flake out if you had more than 32M of

Re: K6 and Debian

1997-11-26 Thread Rick Hawkins
> Can someone give me (or point me to) info on which chips are affected? steppings 9731 (or so) and earlier. These are no longer on the market, and AMD replaces them for linux users and others who could really be affected. (It's really hard to trigger the bug; compile the kernel 100 times or

Re: K6 and Debian

1997-11-26 Thread Steve Gaarder
Ben Gertzfield writes: > I adore my K6/200 with Debian. But make sure you get a recent revision > of the chip -- old versions had an odd condition that made compiles > flake out if you had more than 32M of RAM in the box. Can someone give me (or point me to) info on which chips are affected?

Re: K6 and Debian

1997-11-26 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Pere" == Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pere> Hi! Has anyone used with/out success a AMD K6 chip under Pere> Debian? I adore my K6/200 with Debian. But make sure you get a recent revision of the chip -- old versions had an odd condition that made compiles flake out if you

Re: K6 and Debian

1997-11-26 Thread Charles Read
Yes. I set up a K6 from Cybermax a while back. X11, emacs, et al seem to run fine. My biggest problem is figuring out how to get 'everything else' to work, like the PnP modem, PnP sound card, and PCL printer [BTW, I've concluded that unless you find a PCL printer with PostScript capability, you'r

Re: K6 and Debian

1997-11-26 Thread Rick Hawkins
They work wonderfully. I have a k6-166 running at 210/83 quite happilly. However, it needs some cooling at this speed; until i get something more than this cheesy $2 fan, I need to keep the side off to compile (but not at 166/66). -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "u

Re: K6 and Debian

1997-11-26 Thread Pere Camps
Mike, > I have a K6/233 running under Debian. As far as I can tell, everything > seems to work just fine. Thanks for the info. We'll be probably buying it. Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\<;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pe

Re: K6 and Debian

1997-11-26 Thread Mike Bucciarelli
I have a K6/233 running under Debian. As far as I can tell, everything seems to work just fine. -- Mike - Mike Bucciarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] hambox.theriver.com n7ck.ampr.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Tro

K6 and Debian

1997-11-26 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Has anyone used with/out success a AMD K6 chip under Debian? TIA! Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\<;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ PGP key available --- (_)/ (_)"Lo importante es el concepto" --