Effects of CPUTYPE

[RW]

On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:14:14 +0100
Mark Ovens <parish at magichamster.com> wrote:

> For months now I've been having ever increasing problems with
> software (ports) stopping working - or not working properly; xorg,
> digikam, jalbum, etc.
> 
> ...
> I understand that this optimizes compilation for that CPU but can
> this potentially cause problems? Is this a possible cause of strange 
> problems? All my ports are built from source rather than from
> packages so are built with this option.

I think it's unlikely, but it's easy enough to eliminate.  

From the ports you mention, xorg does seem to be holding a smoking gun.
If you have any unnecessary features enabled in xorg.conf, I'd turn
them off.