From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 4 20:30:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA13277 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 20:30:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA13270 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 20:30:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA09689; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 23:29:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 23:29:26 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: "Brian W. Buchanan" cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape crashes (was: Re: OSS sound support) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Brian W. Buchanan wrote: > On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Brian Tiemann wrote: > > > > > So what's the deal with OSS on -current? > > > > I've had it panicking my installation repeatedly; I got the > > following recently from their (4Front's) tech support: > > > > > We've found a major bug in FreeBSD's VM architecture and have sent off > > > the demo which will crash FreeBSD 3 + Netscape. This is the same problem > > > affecting OSS and so until we hear from the kernel developers' we're not > > > going to do any work arounds. If you like, I can send you the test > > > program. > > I get the "Pinstripe screen of death" from AccelX + Netscape occasionally. > I'd thought this was an AccelX bug, but I'd been too lazy to report it as > it happens so infrequently. I'm running current built Oct 12. What you guys have posted so far amounts (as far as I can see) to little more that gossip. Is there any hard facts that one can verify? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message