From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Mar 3 12:30:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85F7E37B667 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 12:30:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nmanisca@vt.edu) Received: from mail.vt.edu (gkar.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.40]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA04077; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 15:30:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from dog ([198.82.106.223]) by gkar.cc.vt.edu (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.1999.05.24.18.28.p7) with SMTP id <0FQV003S14Z0KZ@gkar.cc.vt.edu>; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 15:30:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 15:29:51 -0500 From: nm Subject: Re: looking for X X-Sender: nmanisca@mail.vt.edu To: Wilko Bulte Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3.0.32.20000303152950.0378d370@mail.vt.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:21 AM 3/3/00 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: >On RC2 libXThrStub.so.6 was missing. The install as such was not affected. >But (almost) nothing ran because of the missing shared lib. I have a libXThrStub.so.6 installed, and things work (like wmaker etc) but X is more unstable than I am after 12 beers. Locks the machine up hard quite often. :( Also when I reboot and fsck runs, I notice an unsettling message: ncr0: SCSI phase error fixup: CCB already dequeued (0xfffffe0000654c00) Any ideas? >On the other hand: I have not but grief with 4.0 & X on Alpha. Varies >from system lockups to completely hosed filesystems when running x11perf. >This is on both Miata MX5 and Aspen Alpine (EB64+) systems with various >S3 and Mach64 VGA cards. I am using an S3 Virge as well. If anyone has any suggestions on how to make X more stable I would love to hear them... The real reason I installed FreeBSD on this system was so that I could use X for development and school projects :( It looks like that may not be such a good idea (I REALLY dont want to go back to Tru64 :( Nick Maniscalco To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message