From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 30 18:14:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75CA237B41A; Thu, 30 May 2002 18:14:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0215.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.215] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17DazM-0003RY-00; Thu, 30 May 2002 18:13:57 -0700 Message-ID: <3CF6CE2C.151FE4BC@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 18:13:16 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Morsal Rodbay Cc: C J Michaels , Greg Lehey , FreeBSD Questions , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors? References: <20011228181009.F95692@monorchid.lemis.com> <20020531023132.A36723@darius.2y.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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. There's a known problem with some of these processors; we discuss this every time someone with a lot of RAM uses an AGP card on one of these boxes, and doesn't use DISABLE_PSE. See the latest Linux release notes for details, if you aren't willing to run FreeBSD-STABLE, and install X from /usr/ports. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message