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by **Micha..** » Sun, 29 Sep 1996 04:00:00

I am considering ugrading from vesa 486dx-33mhx to vesa 5c86 from AMD to preserve
investment in special vesa video board. Will the AMD chip run Linux?? I have
not been able to get a good feeling that it will.....
Mike

by **Steinar Ha** » Mon, 30 Sep 1996 04:00:00

| I am considering ugrading from vesa 486dx-33mhx to vesa 5c86 from AMD to preserve
| investment in special vesa video board. Will the AMD chip run Linux?? I have
| not been able to get a good feeling that it will.....

Yes, the 5x86-133 runs Linux quite well. I run mine overclocked to 160 Mhz.
Note that the VESA support depends on your motherboard. Mine is an ASUS
PVI-486SP3, which has a VESA slot (which I've never used) - but note that
this VESA slot does not support VESA busmaster devices.

by ns » Mon, 30 Sep 1996 04:00:00

> I am considering ugrading from vesa 486dx-33mhx to vesa 5c86 from AMD to preserve
> investment in special vesa video board. Will the AMD chip run Linux?? I have
> not been able to get a good feeling that it will.....
> Mike

Mine seems to have worked fine for the last 4 months. And that's running
it at 160mhz. In my experience, a pentium kicks it's *when it comes
to fpu intensive tasks but for most other things it's a pretty cost
effective solution.
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by **micha..** » Mon, 30 Sep 1996 04:00:00

>| I am considering ugrading from vesa 486dx-33mhx to vesa 5c86 from AMD to preserve
>| investment in special vesa video board. Will the AMD chip run Linux?? I have
>| not been able to get a good feeling that it will.....

>Yes, the 5x86-133 runs Linux quite well. I run mine overclocked to 160 Mhz.
>Note that the VESA support depends on your motherboard. Mine is an ASUS
>PVI-486SP3, which has a VESA slot (which I've never used) - but note that
>this VESA slot does not support VESA busmaster devices.

Now for the followu question: How do you overclock the chip and what extra
cooling is necessary????

by **Bob Nielse** » Mon, 30 Sep 1996 04:00:00

> >| I am considering ugrading from vesa 486dx-33mhx to vesa 5c86 from AMD to preserve
> >| investment in special vesa video board. Will the AMD chip run Linux?? I have
> >| not been able to get a good feeling that it will.....

> >Yes, the 5x86-133 runs Linux quite well. I run mine overclocked to 160 Mhz.
> >Note that the VESA support depends on your motherboard. Mine is an ASUS
> >PVI-486SP3, which has a VESA slot (which I've never used) - but note that
> >this VESA slot does not support VESA busmaster devices.

> Now for the followu question: How do you overclock the chip and what extra
> cooling is necessary????

You need to be able to select 40 MHz (x4), rather than 33 MHZ (x4) for
the clock frequency. It doesn't always work. The 'ADZ' chips are
supposedly better at overclocking. I was unsuccessful with my 'ADW'
chip.

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by **MSwanso** » Mon, 30 Sep 1996 04:00:00

> I am considering ugrading from vesa 486dx-33mhx to vesa 5c86 from AMD to preserve
> investment in special vesa video board. Will the AMD chip run Linux?? I have
> not been able to get a good feeling that it will.....
> Mike

Mine did, but not to full speed. Put the AMD 5x86 into a vlb mb last
spring. It would only do 100 Mhz; probably due to the clock only
doubling or tripling and not quadroupling. That mb died a couple of
months ago and was replaced by a PCI mb. Now it screams along at 133
Mhz. Love it ! - But the new board wouldn't accept my CL-5429 video card
and I changed that to a Stealth 64 which seems to work fine. Hope this
helps.

by **Steinar Ha** » Tue, 01 Oct 1996 04:00:00

[MSwanson]

| Mine did, but not to full speed. Put the AMD 5x86 into a vlb mb last
| spring. It would only do 100 Mhz; probably due to the clock only
| doubling or tripling and not quadroupling.

That cannot be the reason. The AMD 5x86-133 performs the last doubling
internally. If you want it to run at 133 Mhz, you set your motherboard
for 33 Mhz and clock doubling. If you want it to run at 160 MHz, you set
the MB for 40 Mhz and clock doubling.

by **Sakari Aalton** » Tue, 01 Oct 1996 04:00:00

>................... The AMD 5x86-133 performs the last doubling
>internally. If you want it to run at 133 Mhz, you set your motherboard
>for 33 Mhz and clock doubling. If you want it to run at 160 MHz, you set
>the MB for 40 Mhz and clock doubling.

I can attest to the AMD 5x86-133 working with Linux - I have had
one for 5 months, running Linux almost exclusively. The motherboard
is an oldish Asus PVI-486AP4. Compared with the previous DX2/66,
BogoMips almost exactly doubled.

Sakari Aaltonen

by **Bill Sega** » Tue, 01 Oct 1996 04:00:00

>I am considering ugrading from vesa 486dx-33mhx to vesa 5c86 from AMD to preserve
>investment in special vesa video board. Will the AMD chip run Linux?? I have
>not been able to get a good feeling that it will.....

I got one of these a month or so ago. Linux runs beautifully, but I've
had problems with my vesa card and pallete corruption. This seems to be a
common problem with everybody I know switching to a PCI video card. They're
a nice motherboard except for this glitch and a comms port problem which
seems to be fixed on the newest versions of these (>3.1).

I recommend you read:
http://users.aol.com/sdnd/vip.htm

Bill.
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phone : +61 7 3365 4310 DSTC Pty Ltd
fax : +61 7 3365 4311 Level 7, Gehrmann Laboratories

www : http://www.dstc.edu.au Queensland, 4072, Australia
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by **Sid Boyc** » Wed, 02 Oct 1996 04:00:00

> >I am considering ugrading from vesa 486dx-33mhx to vesa 5c86 from AMD to preserve
> >investment in special vesa video board. Will the AMD chip run Linux?? I have
> >not been able to get a good feeling that it will.....

> I got one of these a month or so ago. Linux runs beautifully, but I've
> had problems with my vesa card and pallete corruption. This seems to be a
> common problem with everybody I know switching to a PCI video card. They're
> a nice motherboard except for this glitch and a comms port problem which
> seems to be fixed on the newest versions of these (>3.1).

> I recommend you read:
> http://users.aol.com/sdnd/vip.htm

> Bill.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Bill Segall Senior Research Scientist
> phone : +61 7 3365 4310 DSTC Pty Ltd
> fax : +61 7 3365 4311 Level 7, Gehrmann Laboratories

> www : http://www.dstc.edu.au Queensland, 4072, Australia
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> Bill.
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> Bill Segall Senior Research Scientist

Bought mine just over 2 weeks and it runs fine with either the CL5446
(PCI) or the TGUI9440-i (PCI), the only problem I had was that it wasn't
recoginising my SB16 card (genuine SB), no serial port problems with a
28,8K internal modem, PA0HZP ham radio packet card or packet modem
connected to cua1. The motherboard has 4 ISA and 4 PCI slots.
Regards
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by **Henry Cros** » Thu, 03 Oct 1996 04:00:00

> [MSwanson]

> | Mine did, but not to full speed. Put the AMD 5x86 into a vlb mb last
> | spring. It would only do 100 Mhz; probably due to the clock only
> | doubling or tripling and not quadroupling.

> That cannot be the reason. The AMD 5x86-133 performs the last doubling
> internally. If you want it to run at 133 Mhz, you set your motherboard
> for 33 Mhz and clock doubling. If you want it to run at 160 MHz, you set
> the MB for 40 Mhz and clock doubling.

On a Shuttle HOT-433 board you set bus speed to 33Mhz and cpu to 4x bus
speed.
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by **Kendal Montgomer** » Thu, 03 Oct 1996 04:00:00

> > >I am considering ugrading from vesa 486dx-33mhx to vesa 5c86 from AMD to preserve
> > >investment in special vesa video board. Will the AMD chip run Linux?? I have
> > >not been able to get a good feeling that it will.....

> > I got one of these a month or so ago. Linux runs beautifully, but I've
> > had problems with my vesa card and pallete corruption. This seems to be a
> > common problem with everybody I know switching to a PCI video card. They're
> > a nice motherboard except for this glitch and a comms port problem which
> > seems to be fixed on the newest versions of these (>3.1).

I don't care what anyone says, I have an AMD 5x56 / 133 Chip on an M919 motherboard
with PCI ( 1 VBL Slot ) and it runs great with Linux!

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by **Stefan Huelbro** » Sat, 05 Oct 1996 04:00:00

> I am considering ugrading from vesa 486dx-33mhx to vesa 5c86 from AMD to preserve
> investment in special vesa video board. Will the AMD chip run Linux?? I have
> not been able to get a good feeling that it will.....
> Mike

Maybee a bit off topic:
What is an AMD 5k86?
Linux reports it as Pentium...

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