From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 8 9:31:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 735E037B401 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 09:31:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from baraca.united.net.ua (ns.united.net.ua [193.111.8.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B17243E6A for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 09:31:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from vega.vega.com (xDSL-2-2.united.net.ua [193.111.9.226]) by baraca.united.net.ua (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g98GVjg72583; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 19:31:46 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vega.vega.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g98GVdTs079288; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 19:31:39 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3DA308F6.8D87BF0@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 19:33:58 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,uk,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sorry state of Xserver in 5.0 References: <15777.52918.689192.919124@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20021008064433.GA77334@vega.vega.com> <15778.55259.990703.531720@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Maxim Sobolev writes: > > > > Between this, and the Type1 bezier font abort, the state of 5.0 on a > > > desktop is very sorry indeed. My old alpha running -stable is far > > > more stable. > > > > > > Sigh. > > > > Agreed. I could add that after recent kernel updating I'm also often > > observing XFree86 dying with SIGFPU. I guess that it may have something > > to do with recent context saving changes. > > Note that the recent sys/i386/i386/machdep.c (1.540 and 1.541) should > be backed out if you're running any FP apps (like, say, X). It > somehow messes up the fp context and causes a gpf. Happens to me when > I start gnome2. 1.539 more or less works, albeit with the problems > I'm compaining about above. Backing out 1.540 and 1.541 didn't solve the problem with SIGFPE for me, so that the problem is probably elsewhere. :( -Maxim > > Question: Did the "Bezier too big" stuff start when people upgraded > their X server port, or when they upgraded their kernel? (I just > started running -current on an x86 last week) I have a sneaking > suspicion that the fp context is not being saved correctly, which is > leading to the Bezier problem. > > Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message