Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 10:49:27 +0100 From: Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: greg simonoff <gsimonoff@geocities.com> Subject: Re: FREEBSD - CYRIX Message-ID: <20010105104927.A1155@junior.kasby> In-Reply-To: <3A553DBC.BFC987E0@geocities.com>; from gsimonoff@geocities.com on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 07:21:33PM -0800 References: <3A553DBC.BFC987E0@geocities.com>
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On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 07:21:33PM -0800, greg simonoff wrote:
> Hi,
> I tried all the - I suppose - pertinent settings listed in the
> config you sent me. The system runs just the same. Everything works,
> but Netscape - "floating point exception" - core dump. I'm running
> (trying to run) version 4.73. What version of Netscape are you using?
I'm using Netscape Navigator 4.76 (FreeBSD version).
> When I look at dmesg on my system I notice that npx0 is associated
> with "INIT 16" is that what you see? I would expect it to be associated
> with "irq 13" per the config file - perhaps?.
My dmesg shows:
Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE #3: Sat Dec 30 01:46:35 CET 2000
root@junior.kasby:/usr/src/sys/compile/JUNIOR
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: Cyrix 6x86 (486-class CPU)
Origin = "CyrixInstead" DIR=0x2231 Stepping=2 Revision=2
[snip]
npx0 on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
[snip]
> I haven't tried lowering the compilation optimization yet - ran out
> of time. I cut out almost as much stuff as you from the config file
> though.
>
> GREG
>
> end of the original message
Recompile the kernel without optimization and see what happens. If the problem
persists, I'm afraid I can't solve your problem.
Francesco Casadei
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