Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:52:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0108310049530.8890-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <ABENJKDFOLCKBPLGACFDAECODDAA.pahowes@fair-ware.com>
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Paul A. Howes wrote:
> All-
>
> In the past, I had heard that Linux and FreeBSD didn't work well on
> the Athlon processors. Have all of the issues since been resolved?
> Now that Tyan has the TigerMP motherboard out for around $200, and
> the 1.2 GHz Athlon MP chips are around $160, building a
> multiprocessor system is looking like a better and better idea.
> However, I wanted to first make sure that there are no problems that
> I should be aware of.
Only problem is with the XFree86 4.x Radeon QD driver on boards
that have the AMD 761 ("Irongate") chipset as the North Bridge. X
doesn't work correctly on those boards.
I'm running 4.4-RC2 on a Gigabyte GA-7DX with a 1.33Ghz T-bird
right now, in fact. Unfortunately, the above X problem means I can't
run X on it (yet). No one in the XFree86 project seems to be working
on this problem, so when my time frees up a little bit later this
fall, I'm going to dig into it.
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.)
behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net
I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs.
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