From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 4 6:43:38 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 4 06:43:31 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay3.inwind.it (relay3.inwind.it [212.141.53.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ACA737B400 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 06:43:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from [62.98.55.36] (62.98.55.36) by relay3.inwind.it (5.1.056) id 3A40BF86002D328B for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:43:25 +0100 Received: (qmail 519 invoked by uid 1001); 4 Jan 2001 14:18:52 -0000 Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 15:18:52 +0100 From: Francesco Casadei To: greg simonoff Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Cyrix 5x86 Message-ID: <20010104151852.A482@junior.kasby> Mail-Followup-To: greg simonoff , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <3A53AE3B.A76DD663@geocities.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A53AE3B.A76DD663@geocities.com>; from gsimonoff@geocities.com on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:56:59PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:56:59PM -0800, greg simonoff wrote: > I'm trying to get 3.3 stable up and running completely. It is close. > Just this dam netscape snag. > My cpu is a Cyrix 6x86 Pr166,GP. I have 48Meg of memory. Everything > seems to work fine except Netscape. I've tried packages for 4.08, 4.50, > 4.51, and 4.73. They all core dump with the same error - "floating > point exception". I have tried adding the kernel option for > "CPU_BLUELIGHTNING_FPU_OP_CACHE" - it didn't help. I have tried using > the "GPL_MATH_EMULATE" option - (leaving npx0 in the the config), - > same error from netscape. Any Idea what my problem is? I've spent > hours scanning the mailing lists for information to no avail. > The desktops seem to work fine - I'm using KDE. > Are there some tests that I can run to find out what FreeBSD thinks my > processor is? It recognizes it on POST at a Cyrix 5x86. > PLEASE HELP! > GREG > Content-Description: Card for greg simonoff > end of the original message I have a Cyrix 6x86L PR200+ and I never had "floating point exception" errors. Take a look at my kernel config file... it may help. BTW, have you compiled the kernel with optimization settings above -O? If yes, then try to recompile the kernel with -O (as suggested in /etc/make.conf). Francesco Casadei --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=JUNIOR # JUNIOR machine "i386" cpu "I486_CPU" cpu "I586_CPU" ident JUNIOR maxusers 32 options INET #InterNETworking options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem options FFS_ROOT #FFS usable as root device [keep this!] options SOFTUPDATES #enable soft updates options PROCFS #Process filesystem options "COMPAT_43" #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!] options UCONSOLE #Allow users to grab the console options SYSVSHM #SYSV-style shared memory options SYSVMSG #SYSV-style message queues options SYSVSEM #SYSV-style semaphores config kernel root on wd0 options "CPU_BLUELIGHTNING_FPU_OP_CACHE" options "CPU_BLUELIGHTNING_3X" options "CPU_BTB_EN" #options "CPU_CYRIX_NO_LOCK" options "CPU_FASTER_5X86_FPU" options "CPU_IORT" options "CPU_LOOP_EN" options "CPU_SUSP_HLT" options "CPU_WT_ALLOC" options "CYRIX_CACHE_REALLY_WORKS" options "NO_F00F_HACK" controller isa0 controller pnp0 controller pci0 options "AUTO_EOI_1" # Floppy drives controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 # IDE controller and disks controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 disk wd0 at wdc0 drive 0 disk wd1 at wdc0 drive 1 controller wdc1 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0 disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 # ATAPI devices options ATAPI #Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus options ATAPI_STATIC #Don't do it as an LKM device acd0 #IDE CD-ROM # atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse controller atkbdc0 at isa? port IO_KBD tty device atkbd0 at isa? tty irq 1 device vga0 at isa? port ? conflicts # splash screen/screen saver pseudo-device splash # syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console device sc0 at isa? tty # Floating point support - do not disable. device npx0 at isa? port IO_NPX irq 13 # Power management support (see LINT for more options) device apm0 at isa? disable flags 0x31 # Advanced Power Management # Serial (COM) ports device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" flags 0x10 tty irq 4 device sio1 at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 # Parallel port # # Note: The ppc0 entry is configured to support networking over the # parallel port. If you will be using it for printing, change # "net" to "tty", and review ppc(4) to ensure you have the # correct flags value. device ppc0 at isa? port? flags 0x40 tty irq 7 controller ppbus0 # Parallel port bus (required) device lpt0 at ppbus? # Printer device ppi0 at ppbus? # Parallel port interface device # ISA Ethernet NICs. device ed0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 5 iomem 0xd8000 # Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocated. pseudo-device loop # Network loopback pseudo-device ppp 1 # Kernel PPP pseudo-device ether # Ethernet support options PPP_BSDCOMP options PPP_DEFLATE options PPP_FILTER pseudo-device pty 16 # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc) pseudo-device gzip # Exec gzipped a.out's # The `bpfilter' pseudo-device enables the Berkeley Packet Filter. # Be aware of the administrative consequences of enabling this! # The number of devices determines the maximum number of # simultaneous BPF clients programs runnable. pseudo-device bpfilter 1 #Berkeley packet filter # Firewall options IPFIREWALL #firewall options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE #print information about dropped packets options "IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=100" #limit verbosity --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message