Hi,
 I wonder if anybody has come across the following problem and know of any
 way of solving it. I helped a friend to install Linux on his new machine
 the other day. I was using the SLS distribution (the latest one) and 
 everything  seemed to work fine except when I tried to start X. After typing 
 'startx' the system simply rebooted after a few seconds. The machine has a
 486DX2 50Mhz processor, 256k cache, and a Tseng Labs ET4000 Hicolor card. 
 The funny thing is when I disabled the cache , everything worked ! With the
 256k cache disabled, I can now start X with no problems. But as soon as the 
 cache is enabled, X will not start up.
 Someone suggested that the ram might be too slow and so I increased the 
 DRAM access wait states to 2 (and even 3), but still it didn't work.
 There are no apparent problems with the cache when using DOS.
 Does anybody know why this is so, and how do I get X to work with the cache
 enabled ? Any help and suggestions will be much appreciated. Thanks.

Yap
ffy@uk.ac.cam.eng