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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Laptop Question.
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Michael Smith writes:
> Nate Williams stands accused of saying:
> > > > Oh, I bought a copy of it just before Christmas, but it only works under
> > > > FreeBSD 2.1.*, and I run FreeBSD >+ 2.2-Alpha. :(
> > > 
> > > Bollocks.  We run it on all our notebooks (XFree doesn't support the
> > > 7543 usefully), and they are all 2.2 systems.
> > 
> > Am I the only who can't get it working?
> 
> What does it die of?  

It crashes the entire system.  I see the startup messages, and then
hang/crash.  According to XInside tech.-support this is a known problem
that started sometime in late August/early September.


Nate