Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 16:03:29 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: gcrutchr@nightflight.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TEAC CDROM support Message-ID: <199705130603.QAA14046@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> Yes, I tried to do the install. >> The system hung after probing for APM support. >Yes. The most common cause of this is a bad BIOS not properly >initialising the FPU, which is then used for various things. Try Erm, FreeBSD initializes the FPU before using it. >setting the flags value for npx0 to 1 using userconfig when booting >(boot with '-c'), which will disable the use of the FPU in this fashion. Flag 1 only disables using the FPU to access video memory. Some video memory is buggy and causes system hangs when accessed by the FPU. Bruce
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