From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 13 23:53:57 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC13016A469 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:53:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FDC813C455 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:53:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a29so672284pyi for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:53:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=B4UeaW1T5IVjP+VLoAgJrSlydZ6l1aXJoRTDoWo6KIWpSBk4blQMxo+PiamOcIsugsgCMpJQi0KDPn/q5LQnuHwmXKZ+GhKot3V8yINeSoWjkej1yXymOcfKfAJ1fanLTglhPeSjFPUDtH/KG2ur39Jakr3kJn7d2G/RBStqfz8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CkUOQxBsJMRnQto96XyZ31qrHITnZgR3bKAv7BTdCW0F8H6kFovJ2SDeXx1NgcF3lO2Ay1QuwLJkpidINDRzU3dSxHJYePj01ZOf4LlviI42mdqEQoCJT0SJvLDj8NouqKuf952SzUWSt3Cq/4fAYCkUVKTVBCgqGHF6kT2h9Xo= Received: by 10.35.57.2 with SMTP id j2mr2041589pyk.1181778836125; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:53:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.36.15 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:53:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <340a29540706131653s5c68c723sa52e7921ff2288e6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:53:56 -0600 From: "Andrew Falanga" To: "illoai@gmail.com" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <340a29540706120902k2c10be37q8656814f9fcfc649@mail.gmail.com> <20070612161414.GA68472@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <340a29540706120925g2816f84elfbd14cb5e278358b@mail.gmail.com> <20070612203425.GA74894@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <340a29540706121628u1fdc583el7ecdb3596f7d48e4@mail.gmail.com> <340a29540706130625l4fefdac5ke1d88783e459ab92@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:53:57 -0000 On 6/13/07, illoai@gmail.com wrote: > > The CPU on basically every x86 machine after the original > pentium runs faster than the bus (or memory) speed. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_Side_Bus > > The board will probably have jumpers (though sometimes > boards this old will have bios options) to select Front Side > Bus speed (typically 33, 50, 60, 66, 75, 100, 120, and 133MHz > on a machine of this age) and a second set of jumpers to > select the CPU multiplier. > An old K6-III 450MHz I have here uses a 100MHz bus and > a 4.5:1 multiplier (which alternately might have been marked > 9:2) to obtain the 450MHz CPU speed. A 700MHz CPU on > a 100MHz bus would require a 7:1. If it really does have a > 133MHz bus, it might be set to something like 5.2:1. > > In any case, your troubles are likely either bad memory or > a too-hot CPU, the second of which might be something > as simple as dust or a bad fan bearing. > > -- > -- > My suspicion is also for the memory. Due to some laziness on my part, I'm going to just swap out the PC 133 stuff with the PC 100 stuff that I have to see if that fixes it. This PC 100 stuff used to run a Fedora, and later, an OpenBSD system. On both I performed builds of various software. So, I'm going to give it a try. Andy