From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 5 13:08:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA04212 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 13:08:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from darius.concentric.net (darius.concentric.net [207.155.184.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA04207 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 13:08:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cliff.concentric.net (cliff [206.173.119.90]) by darius.concentric.net (8.8.5/(97/05/21 3.30)) id QAA26662; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 16:08:40 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from athena (ts002d12.sal-ut.concentric.net [206.173.156.48]) by cliff.concentric.net (8.8.5) id QAA22969; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 16:08:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <33971C86.B15F58BA@concentric.net> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 14:07:34 -0600 From: Joshua Fielden Organization: Shaggy Enterprises X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b5 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Bryan K. Ogawa" CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone using 2.2.x + Netscape 4.0b5 + Accelerated X ? X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bryan K. Ogawa wrote: > > I've been consistently able to lock up my system (no nothing--not even > keyboard lights toggling) with 2.2.1 & 2.2.2 , Accelerated X 1.2 , and > Netscape 4.0b5, by starting Netscape, going to my bookmarks, and rapidly > moving the mouse (with button down) over the menu items. After a few > seconds of this, the system freezes solid (almost all disk IO stops, music > playing in the background ends, capslock no longer toggles capslock light, > ctrl-alt-del no longer works, mouse doesn't move). > > Has anyone experienced this behavior before, either with Accelerated X or > with XFree? > > Whatever's happening, Netscape should *not* be able to hose down a system > in this way. I'm using the BSDI 2.x version; maybe that's part of the > problem, but I suspect AccelX (I guess I should check to see if there's a > new version). > > bryan k ogawa http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/ Well, I have yet tp try that release under BSD, but I do know it has managed to trash my *file system* in both 95 and NT, and quite often crashes under NT as the background app, with nothing running. I have a friend who is a senior system analyst at Netscape, and his answer was "no comment." :-) JF -- SCSI is *not* magic. There are many technical reasons why it is occasionally nessicary to sacrifice a small goat to your SCSI chain. Joshua Fielden House of Duck http://www.cris.com/~shag/ email: shag@concentric.net shaggy@dresden.mocteN.com pager: (408)388-4170