From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 30 21:56:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-172.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 935AF37B405 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 21:56:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (topperwein.dyndns.org [192.168.168.10]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f7V4qSX08974 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:52:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:52:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: Chris BeHanna To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message