From owner-freebsd-emulation Fri Nov 29 9:20:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5938437B401 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 09:20:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from dsl-64-128-185-9.telocity.com (dsl-64-128-185-9.telocity.com [64.128.185.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3960643ECD for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 09:20:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjoyner2@hq.dyns.cx) Received: (from root@localhost) by dsl-64-128-185-9.telocity.com (8.12.6/8.11.5) id gATHKIIM096703; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:20:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mjoyner2@hq.dyns.cx) Received: from imp.hq.dyns.cx (www@dsl-64-128-185-9.telocity.com [64.128.185.9]) by hq.dyns.cx (8.12.6/8.11.5av) with ESMTP id gATHKDM0096693; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:20:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mjoyner2@hq.dyns.cx) Received: (from www@localhost) by imp.hq.dyns.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gATHKCLT096688; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:20:12 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: imp.hq.dyns.cx: www set sender to mjoyner2@hq.dyns.cx using -f Received: from 192.168.2.34 ( [192.168.2.34]) as user mjoyner2@localhost by imp.hq.dyns.cx with HTTP; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:20:11 -0500 Message-ID: <1038590411.3de7a1cbc2e33@imp.hq.dyns.cx> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:20:11 -0500 From: Michael Joyner To: Alexandr Kovalenko Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, Olaf Erb Subject: Re: vmware2 and simd problem References: <20021129111925.A74886@erb.nu> <1038586804.3de793b42a721@imp.hq.dyns.cx> <20021129164707.GA93899@nevermind.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <20021129164707.GA93899@nevermind.kiev.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.1 / FreeBSD-4.7 X-Originating-IP: 192.168.2.34 X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org erm i use SSE instructions in both mencoder/mplayer and transcoder for their SPEED improvements when converting audio/visual files into vcd format. i do *not* want to disable SSE Quoting Alexandr Kovalenko : > Hello, Michael Joyner! > > On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 11:20:04AM -0500, you wrote: > > > but i use SSE instructions (transcode & mencoder/mplayer)! > > mplayer uses runtime CPU detection mechanism. It will detect that your > CPU doesn't have SSE enabled. > > > > I searched the freebsd mailing list archives because I had the same > > > problem with my athlon machine.. no more win2k nor newer linux under > > > vmware2.. > > > > > > Well.. till last night :) I rebooted, looked into the system BIOS > > > of the Epox 8k3a (XP 2000) and - there was it: option 'enable SSE' > > > I turned it off and voila - win2k works again, no more bluescreens. > > > > > > Be sure not to turn on CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK in your kernel config file > > > (overrides > > > BIOS config). Disabling CPU_ENABLE_SSE didn't help, I tried this months > > > before, btw. > > > > > > I'm not subscribed to -emulation, it would be nice if you forward this > > > solution to the list. I don't know if it works with other athlon boards. > > -- > NEVE-RIPE, will build world for food > Ukrainian FreeBSD User Group > http://uafug.org.ua/ > -- FreeBSD System Administrator http://manhattan.hq.dyns.cx/ ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message