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Date:      Mon, 6 Jan 1997 21:18:38 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        bazilio@economic.acnit.ac.ru (Vasily V. Grechishnikov)
Cc:        bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   pciprobe hoses system
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970106211838.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <AAIBtSuCC0@economic.acnit.ac.ru>; from Vasily V. Grechishnikov on Jan 5, 2028 16:35:30 %2B0000
References:  <AAIBtSuCC0@economic.acnit.ac.ru>

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As Vasily V. Grechishnikov wrote:

(Btw., your date is set to year 2028.  You've now got only ten years
until the 31-bit time_t will roll over. :-)

>         Why in my FreeBSD 2.1.6R system (5x86 motherboard , PCI DEC 21040
> network card , PCI Trident TGUI 9680 video card ) /usr/X11R6/bin/scanpci
> can kill system ? After start scanpci I can't do anything , keyboard
> locked :( .

Hardware probing of this kind is probably always intrusive.  I think
Stefan Esser is currently working on a more advanced PCI utility.

Don't use it if it chokes on you.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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