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From: andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ghostscript problem with math co-processor
Date: 5 Jan 1996 17:11:14 GMT
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Message-ID: <4cjm3i$3jt@knobel.gun.de>
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To: dfisk@dri.mgh.com (David Fisk)
In article <4ch3d8$ns8@drilex.dri.mgh.com>,
dfisk@dri.mgh.com (David Fisk) writes:
>I have a problem with ghostscript on my FreeBSD system. It is a
>386DX-25 with 8M ram and a 80387. When I use ghostscript, I get
>wierd results. For example, the results from one of the sample
>images, escher.ps, produces some curves that arc off the page.
>Also, when viewed with ghostview, that image comes out in
>black and white instead of color.
>
>My kernel has the GNU math emulator compiled in and if I boot
>with '-c' and disable the math-co everything works just fine.
>
>If I boot DOS and run Intel's diagnostics, it reports that
>everything is fine.
What happens, if you build a custom kernel _without_ GNU math emulator ?
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