Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 22:48:41 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Peter Johnson <pljohnsn@uiuc.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 nonstandard server / ELF compat problem Message-ID: <199811120648.WAA08374@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:46:11 CST." <3.0.5.32.19981112004611.00965100@ews.uiuc.edu>
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The symptoms you're seeing are typically indicative of an interrupt storm - the driver is enabling interrupts on the card but there is no handler for them. This is most likely a bug in the server. > Note--this is _hopefully_ only a temporary problem (should be fixed when > next version of XF86 comes out). > > Well, I finally was able to upgrade my system to ELF (yay). I love it, the > only problem is that X causes some rather bizzare things with my system. > I'm certain it's due to the fact that I'm using an a.out X server binary > (which I can't update because no source will be available until XFree86 > 3.3.3). The X server worked perfectly before upgrading to ELF.. > > Amazingly, the server actually starts up and seems to run ok (window > manager, xterm prompts start, etc), but I immediately am almost flooded by > kernel messages "calcru: negative time of -48128 usec for pid 342 (xterm)" > [with the time/pid/name changing]. Exiting the X server returns me to text > mode prompt, but I continue getting the calcru messages. If I try to run > top or do anything other than just list files, it seems, I get a nasty > message "cputime limit exceeded". End up not being able to shutdown > (because every process dies with a whole bunch of calcru messsages followed > immediately by a cputime message) and need to reset. > > Ugh.. now I _need_ XF86 3.3.3 so I can compile the whole darn thing as ELF!! > > (note: I'm using the SuSe ELSA GLORIA server for FreeBSD 2.1.5--tried to > use the Linux ELF binary, with no success) > > I got the same messages right after upgrading to ELF, so I > recompiled/reinstalled the XFree86 port (compiling as ELF).. didn't fix it > *sigh* > > Regards, > Peter Johnson > locke@mcs.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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