From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 18 13:15:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from darius.2y.net (korpen-86-208.ip-pluggen.com [212.181.86.208]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B4937B413; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 13:15:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by darius.2y.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DCE601C1A; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:15:00 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:15:00 +0200 From: Morsal Rodbay To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire. Net LLC" Cc: FreeBSD Questions , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors? Message-ID: <20020618221500.A62776@darius.2y.net> Reply-To: Morsal Rodbay References: <20020531023132.A36723@darius.2y.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from chad@shire.net on Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:38:23PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.5 [up 3:27] X-Return-Path: morsal@swipnet.se Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:38:23PM -0400, Chad Leigh -- Shire. Net LLC wrote: > > On Thursday, May 30, 2002, at 08:31 , Morsal Rodbay wrote: > > > I recenetly bought an Athlon XP 1800+... and it turned out that it > > wouldnt > > run XFree. Everything worked well besides X. Since a workstation > > without X > > is useless I was forced to switch to WinXP and it's very stable so > > there is > > nothing wrong with the hardware which means it's a FreeBSD issue. > > Not necesarily. What video card did you have. Is it on the supported > list for xfree? Is it on the well supported list or the > take-your-chances list? Was your kernel and or xfree compiled with AMD > optimizations turned on in gcc? Lots of questions can be asked. GeForce 2 MX 200 CPU_TYPE = k7 > I have some servers running Athlon XP 1800+ processors and the kernel > was compiled with -march=k6 since I specified a k7 processor in the > make.conf. The machines would hang every few days. Once I recompiled > the kernel with no -march flag (just straight x86) I have not had a > problem (so far, knock on wood). I do not know where it was hanging up, > since the machines are 4000km away from me right now, but they have not > had a problem since I did that -- maybe you have a similar issue? Thanks for the tip, I'll try it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message