From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 28 22:46:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA06254 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 22:46:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from pelican.com (pelican.com [206.16.90.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA06249 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 22:46:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by pelican.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #10) id m0ts28V-0000SkC; Wed, 28 Feb 96 22:46 PST Message-Id: Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 22:46 PST From: pete@pelican.com (Pete Carah) To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: FreeBSD crashes... Help? In-Reply-To: Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In article you write: >On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Carlos Smith wrote: >> I've installed it several times with the same result...it crashes >> every time I run X WIndows and leave just a screensaver on. It freezes >> everytime and the only way to recover it is by turning it off and on >> again. > >Which screensaver? That doesn't matter. The S3 driver had bugs before the B beta release (I already answered someone else's query about this; using the 312B server fixed it at least for me (all the crashes seem to be in somewhat different circumstances but all happen with *any* S3 card.).) I also went to the 2.1-STABLE kernel but don't know if that helped or not; it didn't help before getting the 312B server so probably not. In my case it crashed on loading pixmaps; I could never get more than 2 or 3 xli's to work before a crash, and netscape loved to crash it. Sure looked like hardware :-( There are some more fixes in the 312D server but it may not work with our libraries (it "ought" to...) since it is based on X11R6.1 and not just X11R6. >Take a look at /var/log/messages and see if something happened to the >program or the X server. It crashes hard with the server apparently writing all through memory; there is no opportunity for messages or dumps. -- Pete