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From: abs@itu (Andre Skarzynski)
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Subject: Re: [386bsd] npx-0.1 causes lockup in npxprobe() - now what?
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Nathan Williams Williams (osynw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu) wrote:
: In article <fZaiZXG@quack.sac.ca.us> dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox) writes:
: >
: >doing simple things like cleaning up temp files etc., and bang! - a
: >npxintr() panic.
: >
: >Following the complaint, Amancio Hasty sent me someone's npx-0.1
: >patches, which I applied.  However, applying the patch to npx.c caused
: >the system to lock up hard during the boot routine, just before the
: >"npx0 at irq 13 on isa" confirmation message.

: Get the new version, npx-0.3 on ref.tfs.com, in the sys.extras
: directory.  It may clean up some of your problems, including the gcc2.3.3
: ones.

: Nate

I am having problems similar to what David Fox was getting. I am using the 
npx-0.3 patches found an ref.tfs.com. I had to comment out the 
fp_divide_by_0() test to get the system to boot. It reported a broken IRQ13.
Allso the system would hang badly with the fpetest, ps aux, and so on...
Any ideas ? BTW please don't laugh, but I am using an Intel 80287.

Thanks for any help.

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