Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 18:13:16 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Morsal Rodbay <morsal@swipnet.se> 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: <3CF6CE2C.151FE4BC@mindspring.com> References: <20011228181009.F95692@monorchid.lemis.com> <OGEFLCDDBCNNBEFGIFEFKEJICAAA.cjm2@earthling.net> <20020531023132.A36723@darius.2y.net>
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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. There's a known problem with some of these processors; we discuss this every time someone with a lot of RAM uses an AGP card on one of these boxes, and doesn't use DISABLE_PSE. See the latest Linux release notes for details, if you aren't willing to run FreeBSD-STABLE, and install X from /usr/ports. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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