From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 8 15:42:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA01937 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 15:42:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01927 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 15:42:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA18942; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 10:12:07 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id KAA19748; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 10:12:04 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980309101203.65384@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 10:12:03 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Ben Goodwin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOLVED: System hangs with 2.2.5-RELEASE References: <199803081817.NAA00606@poseidon.hamsterville.ultranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199803081817.NAA00606@poseidon.hamsterville.ultranet.com>; from Ben Goodwin on Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 01:17:50PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 8 March 1998 at 13:17:50 -0500, Ben Goodwin wrote: > Hello, > Although I got no definitive way to figure out what's going on > with the system hangs I was having, I did get some comments from > Greg Lehey (thanks!), You're welcome. > and did some more investigation. It seemed that the machine hung > whenver it was doing video-related things.. So I swaped out the > card, exercised the video (nothing like ls -laR / in one term and a > repeat 100 cat handbook.ascii (1 meg file) in another, plus a > netscape session), and couldn't reproduce the hangs. Now to return > the video card to the store ... Hmm. It might not be as simple as that. You may have found a bug in XFree86. Let me know how things proceed. Are you getting the same kind of board as a replacement? Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message