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From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com>
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Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?
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To: Morsal Rodbay <morsal@swipnet.se>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:43:18 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: C J Michaels <cjm2@earthling.net>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>,
	FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>,
	FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
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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.

It's probably _not_ a FreeBSD issue.  I'm running -stable on a dual AMD MP
1800+ system (Tyan 2466 motherboard), running XFree86 on a Radeon 8500 128MB
card.  No problems at all.  And it screams. :-)
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