Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 15:55:43 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: gcrutchr@nightflight.com, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TEAC CDROM support Message-ID: <199705130625.PAA14820@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199705130603.QAA14046@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "May 13, 97 04:03:29 pm"
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Bruce Evans stands accused of saying: > >> 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. Um. Sounds like I fell off the wrong end of the discussion on this when it was first raised; sorry. > 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. Ok. Is this consistent with the hangs-at-end-of-probes problem? I appear to have misfiled this issue. > Bruce -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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