Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 00:10:37 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> To: Ian Struble <ian@ian.broken.net> Cc: Adam David <adam@veda.is>, freebsd-ports@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/3640: xlockmore galaxy bombs out Message-ID: <19970522001037.04311@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970521081334.ian@ian.broken.net>; from Ian Struble on Wed, May 21, 1997 at 08:06:59AM -0700 References: <199705211430.HAA12933@hub.freebsd.org> <XFMail.970521081334.ian@ian.broken.net>
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Ian Struble scribbled this message on May 21: > > On 21-May-97 Adam David wrote: > > > > After awhile running "galaxy mode" the program bombs out with an FPE. > > > > > > Known problem, i think. This PR belongs into category `kern', or > > > maybe `bin'. Our FPU error handling is still not even remotely IEEE > > > compliant. > > > > It would probably make sense to disable galaxy mode in the port until the > > other problem is fixed? > > Rather than disable galaxy, a better bandaid would be to fix the galaxy mode. > Just because before this started happening with galxay mode it happened in > flame mode. Granted it was a long time ago when flame would give me FPE errors. of course there is also the problem that your console isn't locked after galaxy dies... :) -- John-Mark Cu Networking Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD
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