From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 25 11:08:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA16348 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 11:08:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www2.shoppersnet.com (shoppersnet.com [204.156.152.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA16328 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 11:07:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from hlew@localhost) by www2.shoppersnet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA21358; Fri, 25 Jul 1997 11:09:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 11:09:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Howard Lew To: Christoph Kukulies cc: Justin Ashworth , Zoltan Sebestyen , FreeBSD questions mailinglist Subject: Re: Netscape-4.01b6 + 2.2.2 = floating point exception In-Reply-To: <19970725173618.48383@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > 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. " Hmmm... I think this was tested a while back: Patch makes Netscape v3.01 more stable (Net search won't crash out) Patch does nothing to help Netscape v4b5 that I can tell. Patch does nothing to help Netscape v4b6 that I can tell. Because this v4b5 is expiring August 1, 1997 & v4b6 for bsd won't work I think all those b5 users will have to downgrade to either v3.01 for bsd which is pretty much rock solid with the npx patch or go for Linux emulation and v4b6 for Linux. Anyone with bsdi know if Netscape v4b6 really runs or does that problem also affect them too? > > > > > > > - Justin Ashworth > > -- ashworth@cs.montana.edu > > - http://www.cs.montana.edu/~ashworth > > -- > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shoppers Network (Support) AMD K5/K6s, Cyrix 6x86, Intel Pentiums/Pro Phone: (415) 759-8584 Email: howard@shoppersnet.com ==============================> WWW - http://www.shoppersnet.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~