Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 15 May 2023 20:30:38 -0400 > Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I also have an ancient i386 IBM R51 running Bookworm, dragon. On > > > dragon, using system-config-printer, I can see the printer > > > automagically discovered. I can open up the queue window for the > > > printer, and request a test page. > > > > > > > If you are trying to run Bullseye on an actual i386 CPU you will have > > strange problems as the minimum hardware version is i686 Pentium II. > > That change took place in Debian quite a while ago. The arch still > > says i386 due to the large number of dependencies it did not make > > sense to try to change it to i686. > > root@dragon:~# uname -a > Linux dragon 6.1.0-9-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.27-1 (2023-05-08) > i686 GNU/Linux > root@dragon:~#
The actually useful thing would be lscpu. It's not necessary, because "IBM R51" is enough to locate it as a ThinkPad R51, which has a Pentium M CPU, which is precisely an i686 by the current nomenclature. -dsr-
