From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Apr 9 14:15:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.primenet.com (smtp05.primenet.com [206.165.6.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BC7237B422; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 14:15:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp05.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA22902; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 14:15:19 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp05.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAL0aOSS; Mon Apr 9 14:15:13 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA29987; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 14:15:16 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200104092115.OAA29987@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: XFree86-4 on alpha To: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 21:15:16 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, jmz@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20010408012022.A60088@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> from "Christian Weisgerber" at Apr 08, 2001 01:20:22 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > - The x11/XFree86-4 ports builds fine. > > - xdm still dumps core when queried by an X display. This means > you cannot use an alpha to manage X terminals, i.e. you cannot > log into an alpha from an X display. (Depending on individual > work habits that ranges from "huh?" to very bad.) You can use this workaround for xdm: sysctl -w machdep.unaligned_fix=1 sysctl -w machdep.unaligned_print=1 sysctl -w machdep.unaligned_sigbus=0 I assume that it's an unliagned access error that's causing the core dump. Since you have the core dump and the program source, it's trivial to do a backtrace and identify where the bad code lives, and fix it. The maintainer might not be able to reproduce the problem. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message