Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 14:07:34 -0600 From: Joshua Fielden <shag@concentric.net> To: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone using 2.2.x + Netscape 4.0b5 + Accelerated X ? Message-ID: <33971C86.B15F58BA@concentric.net> References: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970605120627.542A-100000@foo.primenet.com>
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Bryan K. Ogawa wrote: > > I've been consistently able to lock up my system (no nothing--not even > keyboard lights toggling) with 2.2.1 & 2.2.2 , Accelerated X 1.2 , and > Netscape 4.0b5, by starting Netscape, going to my bookmarks, and rapidly > moving the mouse (with button down) over the menu items. After a few > seconds of this, the system freezes solid (almost all disk IO stops, music > playing in the background ends, capslock no longer toggles capslock light, > ctrl-alt-del no longer works, mouse doesn't move). > > Has anyone experienced this behavior before, either with Accelerated X or > with XFree? > > Whatever's happening, Netscape should *not* be able to hose down a system > in this way. I'm using the BSDI 2.x version; maybe that's part of the > problem, but I suspect AccelX (I guess I should check to see if there's a > new version). > > bryan k ogawa <bkogawa@primenet.com> http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/ Well, I have yet tp try that release under BSD, but I do know it has managed to trash my *file system* in both 95 and NT, and quite often crashes under NT as the background app, with nothing running. I have a friend who is a senior system analyst at Netscape, and his answer was "no comment." :-) JF -- SCSI is *not* magic. There are many technical reasons why it is occasionally nessicary to sacrifice a small goat to your SCSI chain. Joshua Fielden House of Duck http://www.cris.com/~shag/ email: shag@concentric.net <personal> shaggy@dresden.mocteN.com<business> pager: (408)388-4170
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