Date: 12 Nov 1998 11:57:00 +0100 From: Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Peter Johnson <pljohnsn@uiuc.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, x@suse.de Subject: Re: XFree86 nonstandard server / ELF compat problem Message-ID: <87u305p4ar.fsf@tibatong.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of "Wed, 11 Nov 1998 22:48:41 -0800" References: <199811120648.WAA08374@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> writes: > The symptoms you're seeing are typically indicative of an interrupt > storm - the driver is enabling interrupts on the card but there is no > handler for them. > > This is most likely a bug in the server. [...] > > Amazingly, the server actually starts up and seems to run ok (window > > manager, xterm prompts start, etc), but I immediately am almost flooded by > > kernel messages "calcru: negative time of -48128 usec for pid 342 (xterm)" > > [with the time/pid/name changing]. Exiting the X server returns me to text > > mode prompt, but I continue getting the calcru messages. If I try to run > > top or do anything other than just list files, it seems, I get a nasty > > message "cputime limit exceeded". End up not being able to shutdown > > (because every process dies with a whole bunch of calcru messsages followed > > immediately by a cputime message) and need to reset. > > > > Ugh.. now I _need_ XF86 3.3.3 so I can compile the whole darn thing as ELF!! > > > > (note: I'm using the SuSe ELSA GLORIA server for FreeBSD 2.1.5--tried to > > use the Linux ELF binary, with no success) > > > > I got the same messages right after upgrading to ELF, so I > > recompiled/reinstalled the XFree86 port (compiling as ELF).. didn't fix it > > *sigh* > > > > Regards, > > Peter Johnson > > locke@mcs.net [...] Just a ``me too'', Cc'd to x@suse.de. I've gone back to XFCom_3DLabs-4.1-FreeBSD and all is well again after a reboot. The 4.31 version does not behave on 2.2.7-stable either (same symptoms as above) and should probably be removed from the ftp sites. tg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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