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Date:      Wed, 04 Jul 2001 09:36:06 +0200
From:      Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>
To:        "S. David Pullara" <sdpullara@telus.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sound driver crashing OS?
Message-ID:  <3B42C766.78C7A0A1@i-clue.de>
References:  <200107031924.f63JOT500382@yuggoth.bc.hsia.telus.net>

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"S. David Pullara" schrieb:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having a problem with FreeBSD or X crashing on me, but I don't
> know which.  At first I thought it was Windowmaker but I just had the
> same thing happen while using Blackbox.  It seems to only happen if
> I'm running an mp3 player and has happend with both x11amp and gqmpeg.

Any hard evidence? core files? dmesg outputs (only the tail end,
please).

> Sometimes it seems X or the window manager is trashed and I get a
> console screen.  At that point I can ^Z and shut things down cleanly.
> Sometimes I get the entire system frozen, and I can't kill the X.

Which one? XF86 3.x or 4.x? Which FreeBSD version?

> Has anyone experienced something like this?  I have never had FreeBSD
> crash on me before.  Any help and/or advice would be greatly
> appreciated.  Please reply via email since I don't subscribe to the
> list.  (Just too high volume for me to keep up.)

Once ago rand crashed when utilizing lots of RAM just signaled bad
chips. YMMV.

HTH
-Christoph Sold

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