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Date:      Tue, 13 May 1997 16:03:29 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        gcrutchr@nightflight.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au
Cc:        hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: TEAC CDROM support
Message-ID:  <199705130603.QAA14046@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> Yes, I tried to do the install.
>> The system hung after probing for APM support.

>Yes.  The most common cause of this is a bad BIOS not properly
>initialising the FPU, which is then used for various things.  Try

Erm, FreeBSD initializes the FPU before using it.

>setting the flags value for npx0 to 1 using userconfig when booting
>(boot with '-c'), which will disable the use of the FPU in this fashion.

Flag 1 only disables using the FPU to access video memory.  Some video
memory is buggy and causes system hangs when accessed by the FPU.

Bruce
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