From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 10 07:43:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA28896 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 07:43:33 -0800 Received: from virginia.edu (uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA28888 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 07:43:26 -0800 Received: from server.cs.virginia.edu by uvaarpa.virginia.edu id aa27035; 10 Nov 95 10:42 EST Received: from stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (stretch-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU) by uvacs.cs.virginia.edu (4.1/5.1.UVA) id AA23621; Fri, 10 Nov 95 10:42:44 EST Posted-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 10:42:42 -0500 (EST) Received: by stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (4.1/SMI-2.0) id AA24689; Fri, 10 Nov 95 10:42:43 EST Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 10:42:42 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: adrian@virginia.edu To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Neil Clark , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Catastrophic Failure! In-Reply-To: <8374.816014399@time.cdrom.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 10 Nov 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I have a Diamond Stealth DRAM 64. > > Hmmm. That's a newer one. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there > are lurking bogons there still. Yes, there are bogons still there. My GXe was recently fried by lightning via an internal modem, so I borrowed a Diamond Stealth (24?). I consistently had problems switching out of graphics mode. The machine would lock up hard or reboot 75% of the time either when exiting X or switching to a vtty. > > hung the X server on a SparcStation here recently as well, but didn't crash > > the machine; maybe it was just a fatal combination of flaky netscape + mixed > > binaries + administrative incompetence on my part? I guess we'll never know ; > > Can you reproduce it? Yes, but I finally got my replacement GXe. This problem was common enough that I began to explicitly synch the fs before exiting X. BTW, this was with XF86 3.12 XS3 server and 2.2-current. cheers, Adrian adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| Support your local programmer, http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~atf3r/ --->>>| STOP Software Patent Abuses NOW! Member: The League for -->>| For an application and information Programming Freedom ->| see: http://www.lpf.org/