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Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:53:07 -0700
Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?
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Cc: C J Michaels <cjm2@earthling.net>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>,
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To: Morsal Rodbay <morsal@swipnet.se>
From: Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@queasyweasel.com>
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I'll bet you wouldn't have any trouble running -stable on it.  There was a problem with MTRR support which still needs a little fixing in order to shut down properly but that's nowhere near as bad as X not running.  Fix should be in FreeBSD 4.6 as well.

- Jordan


On Thursday, May 30, 2002, at 17:31 US/Pacific, 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.
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