Re: Error in x86 CPU capabilities starting with test5/6

From: Mikael Pettersson (mikpe@csd.uu.se)
Date: Fri Nov 17 2000 - 06:39:59 EST


Jordan writes:
> I have been running a plug in for xmms for some time that uses the
> aviplay program and avifile library...then when upgrading to test5/6 I
> start getting this error message when running xmms:
>
> ERROR: no time-stamp counter found! Quitting.
> ...
> contents of /proc/cpuinfo:
> ...
> features : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca

The 'flags' line in /proc/cpuinfo was recently renamed 'features', due to
some semantic changes. You have a user-space program which parses /proc/cpuinfo
instead of executing CPUID itself, so it breaks.

/Mikael
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