Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 16:30:46 +0100 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: William Richard <wdr@tdl.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: moving to XFree86-4 Message-ID: <20010803163045.C25346@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <01080308113300.00854@saffron.my.domain>; from wdr@tdl.com on Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 08:11:33AM -0700 References: <20010802112630.A9855@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <01080212254800.01448@saffron.my.domain> <20010803154352.A25257@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <01080308113300.00854@saffron.my.domain>
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| indicate bad programmer. It's when you get these errors in programs | that are known to work consistently on everyone else's machines (make | buildworld on -STABLE, for instance, with no obvious complaints on the | freebsd-stable list) that you should consider bad hardware. Well, unless there was a subtle config problem I am unaware of. I saw a line in the log complaining about an illegal x86 extended instruction, but the program kept running. It died before opening a display. | | (Finally, after reading every one else's posts about how XFree86-4 | works flawlessly on their machines, let me indulge in a degree of | schadenfraude... Sorry, but what is 'schadenfraude'? jm -- "Investigators have discovered the cause of the TWA 800 explosion was a frayed wire. The wire became frayed when it was struck by a missile." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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