From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 22 8:40:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.orem.verio.net (gatekeeper.orem.verio.net [192.41.0.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A748737B417 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:40:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (mx.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.10]) by gatekeeper.orem.verio.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E0CC3BF117 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:40:11 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (aaronm@localhost) by mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAMGeAP47532; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:40:10 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 09:40:10 -0700 (MST) From: Aaron Mildenstein To: Gabriel Rocha Cc: Subject: Re: Linux emulation and Opera In-Reply-To: <20011122082933.F8188@neutraldomain.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have had Opera do the same thing to me, but only once. I just figured it was something the linux-emulation did that it shouldn't have that screwed with the kernel. This is why I use FreeBSD instead of linux, but I guess we can't have everything, huh? Aaron Mildenstein UNIX Systems Administrator Verio Web Hosting __ "Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup." On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Gabriel Rocha wrote: > I have been following stable very often (about a buildworld per day > since 4.4 came out) on my laptop and recently (about 3 weeks ago) I > started having serious problems with Opera (it is the only linux > emulated program I use, other than netscape, but I haven't used > netscape much lately and this problem has never happened there) and > and it crashes often now, not just crashing and dying, but it takes > down the whole machine, X freezes, the function keys on the laptop > (ibm thinkpad t20) still work, but the kernel seems to be totally > unresponsive (apm functions that work when the machine isnt "frozen" > dont work at all, sometimes i can get a little keyboard response, > but only one or two keypresses an hour or so later (tested with caps > lock) I know the linux support in the kernal has had revisions > lately, it used to use a 2.2 kernel, now it reports itself as a 2.4 > kernel. I wish I knew more about debugging things like this to > provide more info, I would happily provide more info if someone told > me what info they need. I know this is rota vague, but has anyone > else seen problems with linux emulation lately? --Gabe > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message