From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Aug 29 5:52:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D89F637B422 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 05:52:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA05589; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:52:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.0/8.9.1) id e7TCqnS01916; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:52:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 08:52:49 -0400 (EDT) To: Nick Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is Acroread4 from ports supposed to work on 4.1? In-Reply-To: <39AB45AD.57BF96D6@vt.edu> References: <39AB45AD.57BF96D6@vt.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14763.45333.981353.729476@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nick writes: > I recently installed FreeBSD 4.1 on my AlphaStation 200 and I love it. > I have the osf compat stuff working (because Netscape works fine). > I did a make install from /usr/ports/print/acroread4 and the osf/1 > version of acroreader 4.05 was installed. When I try to run acroread > I get the error 'Illegal instruction' > > Does anyone else have acroreader4 up and running? I seem to remember that acroread 4 uses newer ev56 instructions (probably something bwx related). So it works great on newer alphas (21164a and newer). Tru64 catches the trap and emulates the instruction. Similar to fixing up unaligned accesses, this is very slow. None of the open souce alpha OSes do this AFAIK. So, the best you can do is run acroread 3.x. Hope that helps, Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message