From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 17 22:16:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA02028 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 22:16:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA02019 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 1996 22:16:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id QAA24303; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 16:56:33 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199603180626.QAA24303@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: XIO: fatal IO error -1 (unknown) on X server To: mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com (M C Wong) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 16:56:33 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603180519.AA018436395@paloalto.access.hp.com> from "M C Wong" at Mar 18, 96 04:19:51 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk M C Wong stands accused of saying: > Does anyone know WHAT may be the likely cause of this type of errors > ? I happen to have run into a situation where running PC-XWARE on a > 486/75 over SLIP to a VxWorks to cause PC-XWARE to crash! The SLIP > connections tested include one over modems and one being a straight > link between the 2 boxes. DTE speeds for both modems are 19.2K, and > also 19.2K between modems. For straight SLIP, manage to increase the > speed to 38.4K. But because the VxWorks box (i960 CPU) does not have > hardware flow-control enabled, so it cannot handle anything higher > at this point. Do you suspect packet corruption in the FreeBSD system routing, or do you have PC-XWARE running under FreeBSD, or do you have FreeBSD running under VxWorks? > The X server crashes resulted from the VxWorks boxes trying to open up a GUI > window. Could just be the one or the other or both are a box of snot 8) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[