Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 21:31:33 -0400 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: "John R. Preisler" <john@vapornet.net> Cc: "Jason C. Wells" <jason@washington.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netscape freezing (hope it will help) Message-ID: <35E9FCF5.1001A148@aei.ca> References: <13801.48939.25523.642865@habanero.chili-pepper.net> <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9808301436150.26152-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu> <13801.51675.720139.374828@habanero.chili-pepper.net>
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John R. Preisler wrote: > > I do not use an .Xresources file. This is XFree86 3.3.2 out of the > box. > > -j > > Jason C. Wells writes: > > On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, John R. Preisler wrote: > > > > >netscape: > > >X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large or > > >internal Xlib length error) > > > Major opcode of failed request: 60 (X_FreeGC) > > > Serial number of failed request: 44851 > > > Current serial number in output stream: 44853 > > > Widget hierarchy of resource: unknown > > > > >and then it freezes. top says netscape is still in select, but it > > >wont respond to ctrl-{c,z} and must be specifically sent a kill > > >signal. This problem manifests itself most frequently when using > > >scrollbars. > > > > > > > > >psm0 at 0x60-0x64 irq 12 on motherboard > > >psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3 > > > > > > > > >is what dmesg shows. Ive tried multiple mice in both serial and ps/2 > > >mode and this problem is easily reproducable either way. I run > > >3.0CAM-19980712-SNAP on an asus p2b-ls logic board with a microsoft > > >intellimouse pro and ibm kb-8923 keyboard. Everything else works > > >fine, otherwise. I've rebuilt X from source and remade world but > > >neither solved the problem. Any tips/suggestions? > > > > I doubt this is a mouse problem. > > > > How do you handle .Xresources? Do you merge them? Your X inititialization > > file should have an entry... > > > > xrdb -merge .Xresources > > > > ... or something similar depending on how you have your Xwindows > > initialized. > > > > If you use xrdb -load (the default for xrdb) then all of your Netscape > > defined application defaults will be overwritten for that X session. > > > > I do not know for sure if this will solve your problem. I am guessing that > > you are wiping out some Xresources. > > > > Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering > > Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Maybe it will help, not sure. Mine crash when the internet is going down. I need to kill -9 to make it die. Cya -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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