[MPlayer-users] Illegal Instruction/"Athlon Crash" - followup

[cm5oom at post.com]

> 
> Okay, as I'd mentioned before, I was getting the same problem but was
> able to work around it by manually "forcing" the cpu to "-march=athlon-tbird"
> instead of the detected athlon-4 (it's really an Athlon XP 1800+).
> 
> I'd mentioned that I was suspicious that the mainboard (late 2001 manufacture, 
> ALi chipset - the ECS K7S5A mentioned by the original poster is an SiS) was
> at fault.
> 
> I finally got a chance to upgrade to a new mainboard.  I can report that so
> far every problem that I was suspicious that it was caused by the mainboard
> seem to be true.  Most on-topic is that MPlayer now compiles and runs fine
> as -march=athlon-4 with the new mainboard (the software is all still the
> same).
> 
> On a less on-topic note, my kernel now actually boots when compiled as
> "athlon" as well...
> 
> If anyone cares, the new mainboard is an MSI KT3 Ultra2 (VIA KT333 chipset).
> 
> Hopefully this'll help others with the same problem...
> 

i think it was just a bad board because i have a ECS K7S5A & athlon-xp 1700+ and it works just fine with -march=athlon[4,tbrid,xp]

but maybe i'm just luky
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