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From: jim@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Jim Rump)
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Subject: Re: [386bsd] instlling fpu results in floating exceptions
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Date: 27 Nov 92 11:29:52 GMT
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Edvard Tuinder (etuinder@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
:
:
: Hai,
:
: Just a few days ago I bought a fpu (IIT 387) and installed it. When
: BSD (0.1) boots, it recognises the fpu as npx0 atoxf0 irq 13...
: So far so good.
:
: When running a raytracer, I can see the result of the fpu, but when I
: try to run ps -waxu, ps dies with an floating exception error and the
: raytracer, which ran in the background, dies as well with the same error.
: I also get annpxintr panic every now and then.
:
: Has anyone expereinced similar behaviour and if so, is there a patch
: r so...
:
: Edv
: --
: Edvard Tuinder etuinder@nyx.cs.du.edu
Hi,
I also bought one a few day ago(ULSI). This fpu causes the same problems
described above. Since I installled the pfu gcc is stop frequently]
by SIGNAL 6. Very stange.....
I hope someone has some experience with this.
Jim.
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