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Subject: Re: shared memory
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 20:05:56 -0700
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-----Original Message-----
From: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org>
To: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Monday, February 16, 1998 5:52 PM
Subject: Re: shared memory


>Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> writes:
>
>> Greetings all.
>>
>> I am trying to run xquake on my 2.2.5 system.  If I run it immediately
upon
>> starting the machine and X, I have no problems.  But if I do stuff first
(use
>> xfmail, netscape, etc) and then try it I get a:
>> Error: VID: Could not get any shared memory
>>
>> VID_Shutdown
>>
>> None of the other programs are running.  Even if I shutdown X and then
restart,
>> I get the same error.
>>
>> Is there any way to free the shared video memory (I am assuing its video,
>> since I have more than enough RAM)?  I am running XFree86 3.3.1 and an
STB
>> Lightspeed 128 video card (ET6000 PCI).
>
>man ipcs(1), ipcrm(1)
>
Is there a kernel option that needs to be compiled in to access SVID
semaphores, or a configuration process for them?


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