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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!blade.stack.urc.tue.nl!jim From: jim@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Jim Rump) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386bsd] instlling fpu results in floating exceptions Message-ID: <6440@tuegate.tue.nl> Date: 27 Nov 92 11:29:52 GMT References: <1992Nov25.233843.29513@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Sender: root@tuegate.tue.nl Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. Lines: 35 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] 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. -- \_ \_ \_\_ \_ \_ Jim@stack.urc.tue.nl \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_ \_\_ \_ \_ \_ I,m always seeing an opinion.