On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 08:38:23PM -0400, Chad Leigh -- Shire. Net LLC wrote: > > On Thursday, May 30, 2002, at 08:31 , 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. > > Not necesarily. What video card did you have. Is it on the supported > list for xfree? Is it on the well supported list or the > take-your-chances list? Was your kernel and or xfree compiled with AMD > optimizations turned on in gcc? Lots of questions can be asked.
GeForce 2 MX 200 CPU_TYPE = k7 > I have some servers running Athlon XP 1800+ processors and the kernel > was compiled with -march=k6 since I specified a k7 processor in the > make.conf. The machines would hang every few days. Once I recompiled > the kernel with no -march flag (just straight x86) I have not had a > problem (so far, knock on wood). I do not know where it was hanging up, > since the machines are 4000km away from me right now, but they have not > had a problem since I did that -- maybe you have a similar issue? Thanks for the tip, I'll try it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
