Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 10:42:42 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@server.cs.Virginia.EDU> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Neil Clark <nbc@cs.strath.ac.uk>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Catastrophic Failure! Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.951110103358.23530D-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu> In-Reply-To: <8374.816014399@time.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, 10 Nov 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I have a Diamond Stealth DRAM 64. > > Hmmm. That's a newer one. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there > are lurking bogons there still. Yes, there are bogons still there. My GXe was recently fried by lightning via an internal modem, so I borrowed a Diamond Stealth (24?). I consistently had problems switching out of graphics mode. The machine would lock up hard or reboot 75% of the time either when exiting X or switching to a vtty. > > hung the X server on a SparcStation here recently as well, but didn't crash > > the machine; maybe it was just a fatal combination of flaky netscape + mixed > > binaries + administrative incompetence on my part? I guess we'll never know ; > > Can you reproduce it? Yes, but I finally got my replacement GXe. This problem was common enough that I began to explicitly synch the fs before exiting X. BTW, this was with XF86 3.12 XS3 server and 2.2-current. cheers, Adrian adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| Support your local programmer, http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~atf3r/ --->>>| STOP Software Patent Abuses NOW! Member: The League for -->>| For an application and information Programming Freedom ->| see: http://www.lpf.org/
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