-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thanks, as I reposted I was just a little courius about the topic. I had recently upgraded my system to a AsusN266-vm board with 512 DDR and a 1.73 AMD chip. I have been waiting to see how 9.1 was going to be able to handle all the intergraded components. I knew I would have to apply a drivers for the Gforce 2 video, and the drivers for the Nforce chipset, but I was somewhat concerened that the Nvidia drivers for 9.0 would not work and I would have to wait for a few weeks while Nvidia caught up to Mandraksoft. I found that rebuilding the src.rpms drivers worked fine "after a few config hacks". The athlon.rpms made me wonder about the 586 and 686 issue.
Thanks again. Steven On Friday 28 March 2003 10:57 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > On Friday March 28 2003 09:04 am, G_REEPER wrote: > > Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't a AMD Althlon Xp 1.73 gz a 686 > > chip? If so why does 9.1 still report as a 586 install? > > Because all (well, most all**) of Mandrake is compiled using i586 > optimizations. It's a widely held belief that compiling for i686 > actually degrades performance, and compiling for athlon (3 FPU's per > cycle, instead of Intel's 2), still provides little to no benefit. > That's also been my experience in many (futile) tries ;) > > ** the exception is glibc libraries, which are compiled for i686, > and used if a i686 processor is reported. Type 'arch' in a terminal > and it'll return what your cpu purports to be. I used the word > purports, because some early K6 AMD's and very early Pentiums, some > mobile (laptop) cpu's, and all current VIA-C3 cpu's report they're > i686, but they're not. > > Pushing cpu otimizations to the max is not always a good idea. On > some hardware combinations of PSU, motherboard, cache and ram, and > other components, it can cause failures. Most often why you see some > complaints that Red Hat (i386) works, but Mandrake (i586) doesn't. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+hIXt6UWsagwteioRAlDrAJ9LfMOrtZzU+jEGhOCOv9dV+HmOCACfcw0o T3Ryti3nqEhtjSNi9Pmdqug= =zywS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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