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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:3408 comp.unix.bsd:12147 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,alt.os.bsdi,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!wx.gtegsc.com!andy From: andy@awds.imsd.contel.com (Andy Moskoff) Subject: Re: 386BSD vs. BSD386 Message-ID: <1993Jun30.190239.24508@awds.imsd.contel.com> Organization: GTE Contel Federal Systems, Westlake Village, CA References: <hastyC9F2vF.2Kw@netcom.com> <bigbobC9FK42.CpK@netcom.com> <hastyC9FwCw.Esw@netcom.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1993 19:02:39 GMT Lines: 38 In article <hastyC9FwCw.Esw@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >In article <bigbobC9FK42.CpK@netcom.com> bigbob@netcom.com (Robert Fickling) writes: >>> >>>One annoying bug in BSDI is that it crashes the system if I don't pipe >>>the output to a file when I start the X server. >>>And its new X server also does not restore the screen properly upon exiting. >>> >> >>I run BSD386 1.0 on a 386/33 with a NEC 4FG and a Orchard(sp?)ProDesigner II >>video card. Starting the X server has *NEVER* crashed my system and the >>screen is *ALWAYS* restored properly. Probably different hardware and >>obviously different results?! I really like BSD386. :-) >> > > > >Very please to hear that it works properly for you. I know at least >16 machines at work which the X server upon startup can crash the >system with BSD386 1.0 . > Did you check the compatiblity of ALL hardware? IRQs? DMA channels? BIOS addresses? It doesn't support everytthing on the market. > >At one point the system was crashing consistently to the point in which >I just replaced it with NetBSD. It is all working well now at least >on my PC at work and on my PCs at home. > I wonder what the difference is? Maybe its just magic! ;-) > >Amancio > >-- >This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3 >Amancio Hasty | >Home: (415) 495-3046 | ftp-site depository of all my work: >e-mail hasty@netcom.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/incoming