Subject: Re: Is it ok to use AMD athlon processors?
To: Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com>
From: Bang Jun-Young <bjy@mogua.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/17/2001 14:52:35
Wolfgang Rupprecht wrote:
> I agree with everything but the "stability". The Athlon board I have
> (Asus a7v) sucks for stability. There are many things that I can do
> to crash and hang it. It seems that half of the problem is that Asus
> doesn't give one a full and complete description of the chips and
> their addresses (unlike every Intel-motherboard that I have). If AMD
> truly wants to succeed they have to exert some pressure on their
> cohorts to get with the program. AMD is very dependent on both their
> outside chip-makers and the motherboard-makers to make them look good.
> (Otherwise AMD is going to be known as "that company that provides the
> CPU's for those fast and unreliable x86 computers.")
Hmm...my board is A7V, too. What is the revision number of your A7V and
when did you buy it?
> The most recent -current kernels (after Dec 26) don't even finish
> booting my Athlon. They hang at the "biomask xxxx netmask xxxx
> ttymask xxxx" line. Those same "problem" kernels boot just fine on
> all the Intel motherboards I have.
With the same graphics card, NIC, and sound card? That sounds quite
strange to me. -current kernel as of Jan 15 runs well on my machine.
Jun-Young
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Bang Jun-Young <bjy@mogua.org>