From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 28 16:29: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E29F37B41A; Fri, 28 Dec 2001 16:28:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id BB6AC786E4; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 10:58:54 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 10:58:54 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Schmidt Cc: Glenn Johnson , FreeBSD Questions , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors? Message-ID: <20011229105854.L48518@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <20011228204612.GA1226@gforce.johnson.home> <200112282212.fBSMCea36745@freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200112282212.fBSMCea36745@freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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