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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Spurious signals 10 and 11
Date: 27 Jan 1994 05:00:16 GMT
Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT
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In article <2i4tke$o17@toads.pgh.pa.us>, Bob Kramer <kramer@cs.pitt.edu> wrote:
>Greetingss, *BSD gurus...
>
>I am running FreeBSD 1.0 (I think that's the version) on a 386dx 25mHz box
>with 4 meg of RAM and a 329 meg hard drive.

[ Built a new kernel ]

>Now, I continually get spurious signals 10 and 11... eventually, they hang the 
>machine; they tend to pop up when doing relatively large tasks, e.g. gcc or X.

FreeBSD 1.0 had problems with 4MB machines.  This has been fixed in the
current release which should be out in a couple months.  (Sorry, there
have been so many kernel changes and the addition of shared libs and new
stuff and updated stuff and ...)  Things need to be shaked out, and that's
happening quite well.

>In trying to get XFree86-2.0 to run, I discovered that the GENERIC-AH kernel
>is not supporting my mouse.

I'm assuing you must have a bus-mouse.  We'll make sure the GENERIC kernels
have support for non-PS/2 bus-mice in the future release, and we may even
get in PS/2 support as well.  (no promises)


Nate

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