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Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 21:16:25 -0400
To: Morsal Rodbay <morsal@swipnet.se>
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Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?
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At 10:26 2002/05/31 +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>On Friday, 31 May 2002 at  2:31:32 +0200, 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.

Out of curiosity, is it an ASUS MB?  There was a problem with some ASUS 
boards and X, which has been fixed--that is, if you do a cvsup, make world 
and recompile the kernel, X will work.

If that was the problem well, then you could say the problem ~was~ with 
FreeBSD, but--it's been fixed.  :)

Scott Robbins


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