Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 06:04:04 -0700 From: Gary Crutcher <gcrutchr@nightflight.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TEAC CDROM support Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970513060404.006a5630@nightflight.com> In-Reply-To: <199705130603.QAA14046@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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So.. What would be the best way to resolve this? Thanks, Gary At 04:03 PM 5/13/97 +1000, you wrote: >>> 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------- Gary Crutcher E-mail: gcrutchr@nightflight.com Webmaster URL: http://www.nightflight.com Member of the Internet Developers Association -------------------------------------------------------------
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