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From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:39:59 +0100 (MET)
To: Jordan <ledzep37@home.com>
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Subject: Re: Error in x86 CPU capabilities starting with test5/6
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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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