[bf1942] Freebsd rehashed

wokka at justfamily.org wokka at justfamily.org
Tue Jun 28 18:48:41 EDT 2005


Ah, ok, thanks for the lesson.

This change fixed my problems, enabling sse in the kernel.  I didn't run
it for more than a few minutes.  I'll get a proper config on it tonight
and get it online.

Thanks to everyone for the help!

> actually it was introduced by intel on the pentium 3, followed by sse2
> on pentium 4 and sse on the latest p4/xeon models.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_SIMD_Extensions
>
> Ah, and I will test it as well! Thanks for the info
>
> mickdunde
>
> wokka at justfamily.org wrote:
>> Oh wow, testing this now.  SSE, is this referring to the intel extra
>> instructions on p4's?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>>Ok,
>>>
>>>I recreated your scenario and fixed it. The sollution is simple and kind
>>>of clear once you know the answer. =)
>>>
>>>The problem is that FreeBSD 4.x dont have SSE support on by default. So
>>> I
>>>added the option to the kernel config and rebuild the kernel. (Actually
>>> I
>>>had to rebuild the whole world due to a idiot of an admin updated
>>>sourcefiles (namely me))
>>>
>>>add to your kernel conf
>>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>options         CPU_ENABLE_SSE
>>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>># ps aux | grep bf2
>>>games   146  4.9  9.1 134040 95564  p1  S+    7:07PM   0:59.46
>>>/games/bf2/bin/ia-32/bf2_f
>>>games   153  0.0  9.1 134040 95564  p1  S+    7:08PM   0:00.21
>>>/games/bf2/bin/ia-32/bf2_f
>>>games   152  0.0  9.1 134040 95564  p1  S+    7:07PM   0:00.00
>>>/games/bf2/bin/ia-32/bf2_f
>>>games   151  0.0  9.1 134040 95564  p1  S+    7:07PM   0:00.01
>>>/games/bf2/bin/ia-32/bf2_f
>>>games   150  0.0  9.1 134040 95564  p1  S+    7:07PM   0:00.00
>>>/games/bf2/bin/ia-32/bf2_f
>>>games   149  0.0  9.1 134040 95564  p1  S+    7:07PM   0:00.00
>>>/games/bf2/bin/ia-32/bf2_f
>>>
>>>Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
>>>CPU: Intel Pentium III (930.39-MHz 686-class CPU)
>>>  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x683  Stepping = 3
>>>Features=0x383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
>>>real memory  = 1073725440 (1048560K bytes)
>>>avail memory = 1041903616 (1017484K bytes)
>>>
>>>/Bjorn
>>>
>>>On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Charles "wokka" Goldsmith wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>No, It pauses for about 2 seconds as it hits the drives and tries to
>>>>load, but I get nothing on the screen until it says Illegal instruction
>>>>
>>>>kama wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Charles "wokka" Goldsmith wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>I updated my box to 4.11 and then redhat 9 port but no luck, same
>>>>>>problem.  Interesting how some people have gotten it to work with
>>>>>> this
>>>>>>layout while others can't.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Does it start at all? How long before it cores?
>>>>>
>>>>>I can try to fire up the bf2server on one of our testservers when I
>>>>> get
>>>>>home from work.
>>>>>
>>>>>/Bjorn
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
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