ports/76644: FreeBSD 5.3 will freeze or crash when run vmware on i386 platform with P4 1.7G CPU and ATI Video Card

[Travis Poppe]

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From: Travis Poppe <tlp at liquidx.org>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org, czcc at 163.com
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Subject: Re: ports/76644: FreeBSD 5.3 will freeze or crash when run vmware on i386 platform with P4 1.7G CPU and ATI Video Card
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 17:31:42 -0700

 I've found a solution for this (at least on my machine). 
 
 Removing 'devie apic' from the kernel seems to do the trick. As soon as I get 
 the chance, I intend to re-work the vmware3/pkg-message with this new 
 information as well as clean it up a bit.
 -- 
 Travis Poppe
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