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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!gateway.dircsa.org.au!cleese.apana.org.au!apanix.apana.org.au!hart From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: math co-prosessor broken? Date: 3 Oct 94 02:57:20 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 30 Message-ID: <hart.781153040@apanix.apana.org.au> References: <jeppe.780448974@zetor.clinet.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au jeppe@clinet.fi (Joachim Paganus) writes: >I have a 386/40 machine with a Cyrix 387DX+ (387DX-40) math co-prosessor >and FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 >Every now and then the os says at bootup npx0: marked broken. >I'm quite sure that there is nothing wrong with the chip itself, because it >runs just fine with everything else, and most of the time with freebsd too. >I suspect some incompatibility problems, since one dos test program made >by Cyrix said that my chip is abaut 5 % faster than an equivalent Cyrix chip! >(As I said previously, my chip IS a Cyrix chip) >Has anyone else had this kind of problems? >Any suggestions other than buing a new chip, or using the emulator? Yep - I have the same setup on my machine - only it doesn't complain that its broken, it just locks up when I run xv or other intensive maths lib using programs... :( o well. Cheers Leigh -- | "By the time they had diminished | Leigh Hart | | from 50 to 8, the other dwarves | <hart@eppie.apana.org.au> | | began to suspect 'Hungry' ..." | C/- 195 Gilles Street | | -- Gary Larson, "The Far Side" | Adelaide SA 5006 |