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Date:      Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:17:57 +0200
From:      Morsal Rodbay <morsal@swipnet.se>
To:        Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@queasyweasel.com>
Cc:        C J Michaels <cjm2@earthling.net>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Does FreeBSD have a problem with some AMD processors?
Message-ID:  <20020618221756.C62776@darius.2y.net>
In-Reply-To: <C586C43D-7430-11D6-9648-000393038CC8@queasyweasel.com>; from jkh@queasyweasel.com on Thu, May 30, 2002 at 05:53:07PM -0700
References:  <20020531023132.A36723@darius.2y.net> <C586C43D-7430-11D6-9648-000393038CC8@queasyweasel.com>

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Someone mentioned this MTRR problem earlier, I even tried a patch but it was
unsuccessful. I think I'll make a new try with FreeBSD 4.6, maybe things
will be more successful then.

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 05:53:07PM -0700, Jordan K Hubbard wrote:
> I'll bet you wouldn't have any trouble running -stable on it.  There was a
> problem with MTRR support which still needs a little fixing in order to
> shut down properly but that's nowhere near as bad as X not running.  Fix
> should be in FreeBSD 4.6 as well.
> 
> - Jordan
> 
> 
> On Thursday, May 30, 2002, at 17:31 US/Pacific, Morsal Rodbay wrote:
> 
> > I recenetly bought an Athlon XP 1800+... and it turned out that it wouldnt
> > run XFree. Everything worked well besides X. Since a workstation without X
> > is useless I was forced to switch to WinXP and it's very stable so there is
> > nothing wrong with the hardware which means it's a FreeBSD issue.
> >
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