From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 30 17:38:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (frogmorton.shire.net [204.228.145.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 902EE37B400; Thu, 30 May 2002 17:38:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [68.64.98.90] (helo=lime.objectwerks.com) by hobbiton.shire.net with asmtp (Exim 3.36 #8) id 17DaQt-000GR0-00; Thu, 30 May 2002 20:38:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 20:38:23 -0400 Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v481) Cc: FreeBSD Questions , FreeBSD Hackers To: Morsal Rodbay From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC In-Reply-To: <20020531023132.A36723@darius.2y.net> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.481) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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