Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 21:15:16 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, jmz@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86-4 on alpha Message-ID: <200104092115.OAA29987@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <20010408012022.A60088@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> from "Christian Weisgerber" at Apr 08, 2001 01:20:22 AM
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> - The x11/XFree86-4 ports builds fine. > > - xdm still dumps core when queried by an X display. This means > you cannot use an alpha to manage X terminals, i.e. you cannot > log into an alpha from an X display. (Depending on individual > work habits that ranges from "huh?" to very bad.) You can use this workaround for xdm: sysctl -w machdep.unaligned_fix=1 sysctl -w machdep.unaligned_print=1 sysctl -w machdep.unaligned_sigbus=0 I assume that it's an unliagned access error that's causing the core dump. Since you have the core dump and the program source, it's trivial to do a backtrace and identify where the bad code lives, and fix it. The maintainer might not be able to reproduce the problem. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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