Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 18:49:54 -0500 From: "Waite, Michael" <Michael.Waite@compaq.com> To: 'Wilko Bulte' <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Alpha ISO is fantastic! Message-ID: <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2C36@mroexc2.tay.dec.com>
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My XP1000 has been running solid as a rock now for four days and I have not rebuilt any thing. I am using an ElsGloria (8mb) card. ------Mike -----Original Message----- From: Wilko Bulte [mailto:wilko@yedi.iaf.nl] Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 6:26 PM To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Waite, Michael; freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha ISO is fantastic! On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 06:03:27PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Wilko Bulte writes: > > I'd be very interested to see how the XP1000 behaves running X as I see > > problems on all my Alphas (Miata GL , Miata MX5 and EB64+/Aspen Alpine) > > when running X. > > I suspect that it will do much better because a tsunami chipset > behaves a lot like an x86 on bad accesses -- reads to bad addresses in > device memory return -1 and writes are ignored. All other platforms > give you a machine check. This confused the heck out of me when I was > doing the tsunami support. > > On a related note -- Wilko, can you try compiling X with either -O or > -O0? I just tracked down a nasty bug troubling somebody else which > was caused by gcc generating bad code. I have a sneaking suspicion > that the compiler might be behind at least some of your pain. OK, I just finished an experiment with a Xfree 3.3.6 built from ports with -O. On the S3 server I get, after say a minute or 2 and waving the mouse a bit, a spontanous reboot. At first things appear to freeze for a while and the the reboot occurs. This is using a Diamond S3 964 and a Miata MX5 machine. I'll rebuilt X using -O0 for comparison. Expect results by tomorrow, now heading for a nap ;-) W/ -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands http://www.tcja.nl The FreeBSD Project: http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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