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In-Reply-To: <199705130603.QAA14046@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "May 13, 97 04:03:29 pm"
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 15:55:43 +0930 (CST)
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Bruce Evans stands accused of saying:
> >> 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.

Um.  Sounds like I fell off the wrong end of the discussion on this
when it was first raised; sorry.

> 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.

Ok.  Is this consistent with the hangs-at-end-of-probes problem?  I
appear to have misfiled this issue.

> Bruce

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