Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 10:58:54 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: Glenn Johnson <glennpj@charter.net>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors? Message-ID: <20011229105854.L48518@monorchid.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200112282212.fBSMCea36745@freebsd.dk> References: <20011228204612.GA1226@gforce.johnson.home> <200112282212.fBSMCea36745@freebsd.dk>
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On Friday, 28 December 2001 at 23:12:40 +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Glenn Johnson wrote: >> It is really hard for me to say if this is FreeBSD specific because I do >> not tend to stress the system much when I have Linux running. My wife >> has an identical system running Windows 98SE and she has no problems >> but I know that I have installed software from Epox that specifically >> addresses some issues with the VIA chipset so that may be why. > >> From what I can tell the newest Epox BIOS for the 8kta3 does *not* > install the 686b fix when it doesn't detect a SBLive! sound card, > nice but not good enough :/ Hmm, it has just occurred to me that this 686B fix relates to ata disks, doesn't it? The machine I'm having the problem with doesn't have any ata disks: I deliberately took them out to eliminate this source of problems. So this could be a different problem. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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