Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 20:38:23 -0400 From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad@shire.net> To: Morsal Rodbay <morsal@swipnet.se> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors? Message-ID: <B698561C-742E-11D6-93D6-0003931BED80@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <20020531023132.A36723@darius.2y.net>
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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. 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? best Chad > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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