home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Path: sparky!uunet!UB.com!quack!dfox
- From: dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox)
- Subject: [386BSD] Floating point exceptions with Cyrix
- Message-ID: <fW1PkfZ@quack.sac.ca.us>
- Keywords: floating point Cyrix NDP
- Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'.
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 02:49:16 UTC
- Lines: 16
-
-
- Hi everyone.
-
- I just bought a Cyrix 387-SX math coprocessor and installed it a few
- hours ago. When I brought up 386BSD it recognizes the chip fine, and
- some programs (whetstone benchmark, sc) seem to run fine with it.
-
- However, ps -aux barfs with "floating exception" immediately after
- printing the first report line. ps -aux worked fine (but slow) without
- the coprocessor.
-
- Another program I've been trying to get working (almost useless to try
- it without a math chip) is ephem and it also barfs with a floating
- point exception.
-
- Why does this happen? Do I need to recompile anything?
-