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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
