Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: kwin is crashy

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Sunday 25 September 2005 16:36, Duncan wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann posted
> <200509251336.46490.volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>, excerpted
>
> below,  on Sun, 25 Sep 2005 13:36:46 +0200:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a big kwin problem:
> > alsmost everytime, when the kwallet password prompt pops up, kwin
> > crashes.
> >
> > A ram error should not be the culprit - I successfully compiled for hours
> > without segfaults and memtest86+ run for some time without errors.
> >
> > my CFLAGS look like this:
> > CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -fweb -ftracer -fpeel-loops -msse3 -pipe"
> >
> > I am pretty annoyed by this (enlightenment does not crash).
> >
> > The only affected applications are kwin and kicker of kde 3.4.2
>
> Are you sure your CPU handles SSE3?  All except for the newest k8s do not.
> SSE2, yes, SSE3, not until the newer ones.  (Confirm that SSE3 appears in
> /proc/cpuinfo.)
>

from the OPN it is an E6 venice - and from all the info I found, the Venice 
are the ones with SSE 3

cat /proc/cpuinfo says:
id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 47
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 1000.044
cache size      : 512 KB
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca 
cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt lm 
3dnowext 3dnow pni lahf_lm
bogomips        : 2002.31
TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc

and pni=sse3 from all I know and read, right?
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