Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 02:21:46 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Stefan Parvu <stefan.parvu@comptel.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2questions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912130210010.4557-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991213094911.009290d0@miina.comptel.com>
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routed back to -questions. On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Stefan Parvu wrote: > Hi all, > > I have posted this email for question@freebsd.org but I didn't got any answer. > > > I am running FreeBSD 3.3 Release on one laptop Toshiba and as XServer the > Accelerated X 5.0.2. I am curious about one fact. Everytime when I exit > from XServer I 've got: > > > pid 8971 (Xaccel): trap 12 with interrupts disabled > > What it is about ? XaccelX is sorta buggy, it turns off interrupts and then triggers an interrupt somehow, the kernel is complaining about it and coping with it. > Anyway on AccelX box it is said that FreeBSD OS is supported but only > inside in box I have found that only 2.x are supported, according with > members of FreeBSD project. Why ? Why not 3.x? Because AccelX hasn't been very good at keeping FreeBSD users feeling happy/supported, see Brett Glass's recent posts about his run-in with a clueless Xig salesperson (the same thing happened to me). I've already bought Xig's server for two reasons, it is pretty darn good and I thought it was the only one out there (besideds XFree) It now seems that some other commercial X servers for FreeBSD are appearing (see: http://www.metrolink.com/) that and XFree's acceleration and stability has improved substantially. I'll be investigating those the next time a purchase op/reason to upgrade comes up. > > > > On the other hand using FreeBSD 3.3 on another box (Compaq Desktop, AMD > K6-333, 80MBRAM; 4GB, Voodoo3 PCI 2000) I ran top and the SIZE of XF86_SVGA > goes to 54MB and RSIZE the same. > Why ? I don't know, this is the FreeBSD Project's help mailing list, not the XFree86 help mailing lists, you may want to check over at http://www.xfree86.org for answers to that and other X server questions. All I can really say is the an X server is a complicated program that needs a lot of supporting code to do its job, hence the large footprint. 450 bright 2 0 42328K 40088K select 1 1:07 0.00% 0.00% Xaccel *shrug* good luck, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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