From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 25 08:36:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA08570 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 08:36:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA08541 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 08:35:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA07303; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 17:36:13 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id RAA19208; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 17:36:20 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <19970725173618.48383@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 17:36:18 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies To: Justin Ashworth Cc: Zoltan Sebestyen , FreeBSD questions mailinglist Subject: Re: Netscape-4.01b6 + 2.2.2 = floating point exception References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.75e In-Reply-To: ; from Justin Ashworth on Thu, Jul 24, 1997 at 02:00:55PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Jul 24, 1997 at 02:00:55PM -0600, Justin Ashworth wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Zoltan Sebestyen wrote: > > > Recently, this problem was discussed and having neither Mozilla 4.01b6 nor > > FreeBSD-2.2.2RELEASE that time, I skipped that topic. I've just upgraded > > to 2.2.2 (it's very good, I love it), and faced the same problem, but I > > don't remember if there was any result. If there was, please let me know. > > Downgrade to b5 or use the Linux version w/ compat libs. Or use a kernel with the following patch (beware of other side effects though like the system being immune against other FPEs which you otherwise might want to get notified about): ( Cut out of a message originating from Martin Cracauer ) "Could anyone else (I don't want to download the big beast and hate Communicator anyway) try to run the Netscape version that causes core dumps on FP exception on a FreeBSD kernel with #undef __INITIAL_NPXCW__ #define __INITIAL_NPXCW__ 0x127f at the end of /usr/src/sys/i386/include/npx.h Take care that /usr/include/machine/npx.h stays the same. Then rebuild and boot a kernel. Let me know about the results. " > > > - Justin Ashworth > -- ashworth@cs.montana.edu > - http://www.cs.montana.edu/~ashworth -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de