From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Mar 15 19:35:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA26033 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 19:35:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from petrified.cic.net (altitude@petrified.cic.net [192.131.22.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA26019 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 19:35:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from altitude@localhost) by petrified.cic.net (8.7.5/8.7.3(CICNet)) id WAA20882 for freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 22:34:44 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199603160334.WAA20882@petrified.cic.net> Subject: npx0/Cyrix DLC486/Cyrix 80387 To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 22:34:43 -0500 (EST) From: Alex Tang X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1C 2A 38 B6 53 A4 0F 8E 5E 31 D2 76 B9 6E F7 4A X-PGP-Comment: Finger altitude@cic.net for PGP info X-URL: http://petrified.cic.net/~altitude X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi folks. I've got an Intel i386/33 with a Cyrix 387 running FreeBSD-2.1.0-RELEASE. (run's great, no problems). I was given a Cyrix DLC-486/33 Chip by a friend. the problem is that when I put the 486 and the 387 in the box at the same time, FreeBSD won't boot, it stops right after checking npx0. The 486 chip works fine without the 387. Is this a FreeBSD problem, or am I just an idiot who's forgotten something. Thanks very much. ...alex... Also, perhaps someone who knows more about hardware than I could answer this. If I'm screwed and can't run the 486 and the 387 together, which setup should I use: the 386/387 combination or the 486/no fpu combo? I did some benchmarking and the 387/387 came up faster, but those only test integer/floating point calculations. I haven't had time to do any real world benchmark testing... -- Alex Tang altitude@cic.net http://petrified.cic.net/~altitude Viz-It!: Software Developer, http://vizit.cic.net CICNet: Unix Support / Info Services / Programmer, http://www.cic.net