On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 09:37, Yuri van Oers wrote:
> 
> On 1 Oct 2001, Michel [ISO-8859-1] D�nzer wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 00:13, Peter Pilsl wrote:
> >
> > > > Are you sure the configuration is _exactly_ the same except for the
> > > > CPU - no other hardware differences or anything?
> > >
> > > There are two laptops from Dell - same model with same equipment only
> > > differing in the CPU. When doing lspci I see that even the reported
> > > versions of all components (especially vga-adpater) are equal.
> > >
> > > What the hell is going on ? The only reasonable explanation is some
> > > MMX-code in a relevant part of the driver that doesnt run on the
> > > Celeron.
> >
> > Hardly, as Mark pointed out.
> 
> As far as I can see on intel.com the mobile Celeron 700 still has the P2
> core and does not have SSE (SIMD). The (mobile) P3 does. Maybe that's the
> problem. Or could it be something with MTRRs?

That could only explain the difference in stability.

AA text only depends on whether the RENDER extension is available and
the client side is configured to use it, neither of which depends on the
CPU.


-- 
Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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