[mythtv-users] configure did not detect my cpu (SVN #13187)

Janne Grunau janne-mythtvusers at grunau.be
Fri Apr 6 00:08:33 UTC 2007


On Thursday 05 April 2007 19:54:01 William Munson wrote:
> I just installed a upgraded (2200+ to 2800+Mobile) processor in this
> computer and configure is not detecting it as a athlonXP mobile
> processor. The cpu is used (works fine at 2.2GHz) but I have the
> specs that the seller gave me if that helps. I am currently running
> it at its rated freq and multipliers. Also below is the output from
> configure. How can I help?
>
> root at mythtv:~/myth/mythtv# cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family      : 6
> model           : 10
> model name      : Unknown CPU Typ

This is the problem. Your linux kernel doesn't know your Athlon XP 
mobile. Sorry, but we can't do much about that.

For proper optimization you should use --arch=athlon-xp (for 0.20-fixes) 
or --cpu=athlon-xp (svn trunk) and --enable-proc-opt.

Janne


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